Europe’s new anti-heroes, Van Rompuy and Ashton

Who Van Rompuy? Baroness Ash-who?

The cafebabel.com team in Brussels came up with this from the live event with Van Rompuy and Ashton, Brussels, 19 November 2009, by ©cafebabel Brussels

They sound like superheroes, but their surnames are deceiving. Ladies and gentleman, we are referring to the freshly elected EU president, the Belgian former nobody prime minister Herman van Rompuy, and the freshly elected high representative for foreign affairs, the British former nobody trade commissioner Catherine Ashton. The results were announced after the Brussels summit on 20 November, where cafebabel.com Brussels went shaky and live with their handcam. Hermy and Cat are down to be the new guinea pigs in their brand spanking new EU functions

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20/11/09

Tags : Belgique, José Manuel Barroso, Bruxelles, Herman Van Rompuy, Politique étrangère et de sécurité commune, Elections européennes 2009, institutions européennes, Mr. GASP, Catherine Ashton, Royaume-Uni.

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