LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is ready to back his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk as the next president of the European Council after receiving assurances he is sympathetic to the British leader's plans to reform the European Union.
Tusk, a centre-right politician, hasn't formally declared he wants the top EU job. He declined to throw his name in the ring at an EU summit in July despite German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging him to become a candidate for one of the bloc's top posts.
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