[CWOJackson]

Do you recall how France wanted the EU Constitution to be written? Even though the leadership (or lack thereof) of the EU rotates, they wanted it in the Constitution that France be given authority over foreign affairs on behalf of the EU. They tried to justify this by the fact that the EU isn't a government and so one unified head was necessary to guide foreign affairs for the whole.

It didn't fly.

[bgarid]

Yet another evidence that the EU is doomed. You can't run great power foreign policy by a committee.

And frankly, the sooner the EU disintegrates the better for all concerned.