COMMENT The European Union is not a super-state, nor is it going to become one in the foreseeable future. So it does not need a super-president. It needs a super-chair: someone who will co-ordinate the agenda, bang heads together to forge agreements, and then argue the EU case on the world stage.
It does not require a party political foreign minister like a traditional nation state, either. It needs an outstanding diplomat, with a strategic view, who can negotiate and conduct a common foreign policy for all 27 member states.
