Mr Dynamo! Herman Van Rompuy
Is this the face of the new EU president? Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy’s? Don’t you think he looks, well, what can I say? … just dynamic? This must surely be one EU president who will set the world alight! This is proof positive, if indeed proof were needed, that one needs to be neither a good-looker nor stylish nor a trailblazer to make it on the world stage today. Simply being moribund will do! – © Mark. Photo: Mail Online.

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