EU names Belgian PM Van Rompuy as first president

2009/11/20 09:41:20 @Reuters: World News

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who is little known outside his own country, as the bloc's first president on Thursday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the world stage. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=N5t-gL_01QU:LqDYOdPU2GE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=N5t-gL_01QU:LqDYOdPU2GE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=N5t-gL_01QU:LqDYOdPU2GE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=N5t-gL_01QU:LqDYOdPU2GE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=N5t-gL_01QU:LqDYOdPU2GE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/N5t-gL_01QU" height="1" width="1"/
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