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These functionaries will not exceed their job descriptions, the argument goes. Mr. Van Rompuy will be a slightly harassed chairman of the European Council rather than a chief executive with delusions of grandeur; Lady Ashton will co- ordinate … The EU is becoming more pompous by the day: European Commission offices around the world are being turned into “embassies” staffed by a network of 7000 diplomats, and the Ruritanian trappings of the posts of president and high …