Robinson rules out EU post in order to fight climate change

MARY ROBINSON yesterday ruled out a bid to become EU Council President, claiming she was going to focus on climate change and its effects on the developing world.

The former president, who has also worked as a high commissioner for human rights, had been linked with the new EU post in recent weeks, but speaking at the EU Development Days conference in Stockholm yesterday she said she would not be putting her name forward.

“I did appreciate that people were clearly putting my name forward, but in fact I am very committed to the further divide now being created by the impacts of climate change in the poorest countries,” she said.