Britain's Cameron isolated in EU leader search

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Britain's Cameron isolated in EU leader search
By JUERGEN BAETZ and GEIR MOULSON
The Associated Press
June 26, 2014 Updated 10 minutes ago

BRUSSELS — Many political battles are ugly — but toss in 28 nations, high unemployment, angry voters and a skeptical Britain and the fight over who will be the European Union's next chief executive may have profound consequences.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has set himself up for a stinging defeat as his vocal campaign to block the front-runner for the top EU job, former Luxembourg prime minister and longtime Brussels insider Jean-Claude Juncker, fails to gain traction.

Many fear that an increasingly isolated Britain could even choose to leave the bloc embracing 500 million people — something that has never happened in the EU's history.

At their summit Friday, the bloc's leaders are set to nominate Juncker as the next president of the European Commission, the EU's powerful executive arm, which is in charge of drafting legislation, overseeing countries' budgets and policing the EU's single market.