Deal between three pro-European blocks would make Estonian PM top diplomat and former Portuguese PM council president
Ursula von der Leyen looks likely to clinch the nomination for a second term as European Commission president under a deal by EU leaders from the three pro-European political groups that sews up the bloc’s top jobs.
According to the agreement made by the centre-right European People’s party, the Socialists and the Liberals, von der Leyen will be nominated for a second five-year mandate at the head of the EU executive at a Brussels summit on Thursday.
Continue reading…Deal between three pro-European blocks would make Estonian PM top diplomat and former Portuguese PM council presidentUrsula von der Leyen looks likely to clinch the nomination for a second term as European Commission president under a deal by EU leaders from the three pro-European political groups that sews up the bloc’s top jobs.According to the agreement made by the centre-right European People’s party, the Socialists and the Liberals, von der Leyen will be nominated for a second five-year mandate at the head of the EU executive at a Brussels summit on Thursday. Continue reading…