NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is tipped to get another top job – European Council President to replace Herman Van Rompuy.

Sources at the Liberal Congress, held in Dublin from 8 to 10 November, said that even if Guy Verhofstadt is an obvious candidate for Commission president, the party is unable to put forward his candidacy, because Rasmussen, has ambitions to get the job of Herman Van Rompuy as Council president, EUractiv reported.

As a second choice, Rasmussen could succeed Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign affairs chief.