Missing a historic opportunity

The daily Aftonbladet says that by electing Herman Van Rompuy the EU has missed an historic opportunity, but that putting a woman in charge of foreign policy is at least a step in the right direction: "Europe has preferred to go on talking with itself rather than with the rest of the world. ... The choice of Catherine Ashton, the British Labour EU commissioner, as foreign minister is problematic partly for the same reasons. ... But one should not underestimate the force of having a woman in a very high position in the EU. The dominance of men is a huge democratic problem. Twenty-six of the twenty-seven heads of government are men. As the French EU correspondent Jean Quatremer has commented, 'it looks very much like a Christian-Democratic version of a Saudi government'."

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