Brussels, 01/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 1 December, Poland's former prime minister Donald Tusk, 57, took over the reins of the European Council for a fixed mandate of two and a half years.
Appointed by his peers on 30 August, Tusk, who is a former member of the famous Solidarnosc trade union, takes over from Van Rompuy (Belgium), who presided over the Council of Ministers at the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels for five years. While Van Rompuy was perceived as a master of the...