Would Tony Blair give the EU proper internal attention, and would EU leaders accept being eclipsed by a star?
Gordon Brown thinks Blair would be an excellent candidate.
The top Tory in Brussels, Timothy Kirkhope, says that if Europe must have a president, he hopes he’s low key.
The postal union is threatening to escalate the dispute.
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Jim Pickard is the FT's chief political correspondent, having joined the lobby team in January 2008. He has been at the FT since 1999 as a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.
Kiran Stacey is an FT political correspondent, having joined the lobby in 2011. He started at the FT as a graduate trainee in 2008, working on desks including UK companies and US equity markets before taking over the FT's Energy Source blog.
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