EUROPE'S GRAY MICE -- Opinion Europe, The Wall Street Journal

The message of the EU appointments is less "We've arrived," more "Nothing to see here."

The newly created posts of EU President and Foreign Minister were supposed to signal the rise of the EU as a world power in its own right. But the appointments last week of Belgian Herman Van Rompuy and Briton Baroness Catherine Ashton to those posts seem calculated to say as little as possible. Perhaps Belgian Prime Minister Van

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