The choice for No. 3 job – the foreign policy supremo who will have extra resources and powers to build on the position created by Javier Solana – looks more straightforward. Solana, the soft- spoken Spaniard who was previously NATO’s secretary-general, looks like the odds-on favorite to take the new job for a few months before handing it over to Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister and ex-premier who gained international stature in the Balkans in the 1990’s.
第三位职务的侯选人看起来更为明显。索拉纳创立了这一外交政策的超级职务，具有更多的资源和权力。言辞温和的索拉纳是西班牙人，曾经担任北约秘书长。他看起来会担任这一职务几个月时间，然后交给瑞典外相和前首相比尔特，他在九十年代处理巴尔干问题上赢得了国际地位。