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Their choice of Romano Prodi as the President of the new Commission has been explained by some in cynical terms: Jacques Santer, the outgoing President, was a Christian Democrat from a small Northern member state (Luxembourg); the next President had to be a Left-of-Centre politician, from a large member state in the south of the EU.

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So I have to do a little bit of the sort of work that a lot of you won't like, for the same reason that you don't like to see a magic trick explained to you.

Now, I've just laid out the picture for you, but I still haven't explained to you why this is happening.

But if you're interested in self-knowledge, as I am, the more interesting bit is, OK, so what did they say when they explained these choices?

And then, he explained his choice like this.

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