Denmark’s glee at the choice of former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the new secretary-general of NATO is not shared throughout Europe, at least according to a Der Spiegel study of the way that senior international posts are filled.
The Spiegel article, which says there is a tendency to pick ‘second-best’ and in NATO the ‘lowest common denominator’, studies various global secretary-generalships such as the United Nations, the IAEA and NATO.




























