New boss in Brussels. (Brussels, Belgium; Jacques Santer) (Inside Europe)

Europe | September 1, 1994| | Copyright

Jacques Santer was nobody's first choice to be the next president of the European Commission. But like most canny politicians, the little-known prime minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg knows how to turn an apparent weaknes into a virtue.

Just clays after the 12 heads of government of the European Union chose him as the successor to Jacques Delors, Santer noted that Konrad Adenauer, the first post-World War II Chancellor of Germany, had only been elected by one vote in 1949. Indeed, Delors himself had not been everyone's first choice when he was elected to take ...

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