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No European has run the U.N.’s food agency since 1975. Now three EU countries are fighting over who gets to try, and the unlikely front-runner is a man his own government barely wanted to nominate.

Then-EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan pictured on Dec. 4, 2019, at the Commission headquarters in Brussels. | Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images

May 28, 2026