New EU leaders greeted with delight, dismay

Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, holds a Rubick's cube showing pictures of newly-appointed (left to right) EU President Herman van Rompuy of Belgium, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and newly-appointed EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton of Britain. Settling on a combination of center-right, center-left, big country, small country candidates for the two jobs consumed an extraordinary summit of EU leaders in Brussels last week.