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France’s voice barely heard in debate on top EU job

President François Hollande has played a background role in saga over who should be Commission president as UK and Germany slug it out.

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As Britain’s David Cameron and Germany’s Angela Merkel have wrangled publicly over whether Jean-Claude Juncker should head the EU’s executive arm, another voice has been notable mainly for its absence: that of France, reports The Financial Times.

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