The foreign policy chief for the European Union, Javier Solana, has told reporters in Brussels that while he would like to see the process go faster the most important aspect is to have credible results in the end.
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She even still drives an old smart fortwo that she bought back in 2000 while living inBrussels, where she was the head of Daimler for Belgium and Luxembourg.
Yet even here, while officials inBrussels express a sign of relief that, in their opinion, the worst of Europe's economic crisis is behind them - the poor are getting poorer.
Years of hostile headlines about the European Union have made sensible public debate of Britain's EU interests almost impossible: instead successive governments talk tough at home while pursuing pragmatism inBrussels.