Wolfowitz looks to ease EU concerns

EU officials appear ready to accept Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank after talks today in which the architect of the Iraq war tried to soothe concerns about his reputation as a unilateralist.

Wolfowitz struck a markedly conciliatory public tone after a two-hour session with development and finance ministers at European Union headquarters in Brussels, promising to work closely with European partners and saying he would make fighting poverty his top priority.