Despite the efforts of U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, and Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, Tony Blair's hopes of becoming EU president basically died at last week's Brussels summit. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)

Bye-bye Blair; hello, who?

The EU is trying to decide what kind of personality it wants for the new position of president.

By Teri Schultz - GlobalPost
Published: November 6, 2009 19:43 ET

BRUSSELS — “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger couldn’t have known three decades ago how long and loudly his plaint about the multiheaded bureaucracy would resonate.

The phrase has been repeated in Brussels to the point of becoming cliche while pro-European Union forces have worked to get to where they are today:...

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