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Ashton"s nomination, but now they are indignant because she is overly engaged in foreign politics. France would have preferred that to be Sarkozy"s to define.Ashton"s entourage agree that she could have left Kiev to President Van Rompuy, but insist she had to visit Moscow because Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had invited her. Van Rompuy almost had a free day on February 25, giving one lecture to students at a small college in Bruges. Van Rompuy"s team retorted that he was too high up in the EU to attend such an inauguration ceremony. A source in Barroso"s office hinted that she was indeed taking on more responsibility than she could handle. Three top European Union officials are already deeply entrenched in this bickering.
This kind of brawling is not doing the EU any good; moreover, it makes the Lisbon treaty"s opponents ever more confident that the treaty was not ready, unfinished and only served to confuse things rather than to streamline the organization.
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