Little sway: Denmark takes up EU presidency

COPENHAGAN: Non-euro nation Denmark took over the European Union’s rotating presidency Sunday, aspiring to ease the bloc’s crisis but few expecting it to impact the power game dominated by the big players. The small Scandinavian country will have to face head on the ballooning euro debt crisis. The importance and sway of the EU’s rotating presidency has also dwindled since the Lisbon Treaty created the post of a permanent president of the European Council.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd,  2012.