Miliband is the Brits' last chance

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has now decided to back the candidacy of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband for the post of EU Foreign Affairs Minister. According to the left-liberal daily La Repubblica this change of heart is down to Brown's fears that the UK could fail to achieve either of the two major EU posts: "Gordon Brown has realised that it was pointless to continue fighting for [ex-prime minister Tony] Blair's candidacy. … Furthermore Europe's two most important parties, the Conservatives and the Socialists, had long since made other arrangements for the distribution of the posts. The post of president is to go to the EEP [European People's Party] while the post of Foreign Affairs High Representative, who will also be the vice president of the EU executive, will go to a representative of the PES [Party of European Socialists]. … By insisting on Blair's candidacy the British ran the risk of losing out altogether."

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