EU chooses another conservative for top job

When the European Union chooses a top political leader, you can usually count on them being yet another conservative. That's because the EU is ruled by a right-wing elite that keeps putting its own political allies in charge. It's Europe's version of the Republican revolving door.

Now the EU has selected Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the first occupant of its newly created presidential post. Yep, another conservative.

Mind you, this is not an elected position. It's appointed by elite leaders who meet behind closed doors. But the EU now makes a vast majority of laws for its member countries.

All this in an EU that requires member nations to have corporatist economic systems anyway.

(Source: http://euobserver.com/9/29024)