The top posts created by the Lisbon treaty will be filled on the basis of political agreement reached unanimously at the informal meeting of EU heads of state and government on 19 November in Brussels. Herman Van Rompuy will leave his post of Belgian Prime Minister to become the President of the European Council.
Herman Van Rompuy, Fredrik Reinfeldt and Catherine Ashton
at the press conference after the EU informal summit
on 19 November 2009.
Photo: Council of the European Union