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Article: Danes join race to succeed Delors
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1994
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SOMEBODY called Jacques Santer was the compromise on many
people's lips this weekend as the likely successor to Jacques
Delors. But if the Prime Minister of Luxembourg is such a suitable
solution to the crisis over who should get Europe's top job, why
did the Danish government field Poul Schluter, even as four of the
European Union leaders were meeting in Naples in the context of the
world's economic summit?
The candidacy of the former Danish prime minister, made official
by Copenhagen only on Saturday, is seen by some European diplomats
as a counter-attack by proxy from Britain.
They point out that John Major must in all honesty consider Mr
Santer every bit as federalist as Jean-Luc ...