Merkel Faces Mutiny Over Her Half-Baked Plan for Top EU Job
- German chancellor was confronted with ‘rebellion of rabbits’
- Leaders to reconvene Tuesday for day three with tempers frayed
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If there was one thing Angela Merkel didn’t factor into her plan to make Socialist Frans Timmermans the European Union’s next chief executive, it was what one official in the room called the “rebellion of rabbits.”