European Union leaders aim to wrap up a tortured job selection process on Sunday...
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders aim to wrap up a tortured job selection process on Sunday in their third attempt to decide who will take over the bloc’s top five posts and set policies that affect the lives of some 500 million Europeans.
Up for grabs are the presidencies of the EU’s executive Commission, the parliament, the European Council of EU governments, the EU’s foreign policy chief and the head of the European Central Bank, which governs the euro currency. EU leaders hope to agree to a deal over dinner from 1800 CET but have also scheduled a breakfast on Monday, mindful that a new European Parliament holds its first session on Tuesday in Strasbourg and needs a president.
But France’s President Emmanuel Macron has rejected the ‘Spitzenkandidat’ system supported by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who for her part has refused to give it up. But Timmermans, a deputy head of the Commission and a former Dutch foreign minister, is unpalatable to eastern EU states such as Hungary and Poland for his role in the bloc’s rule of law probes against their nationalist governments.
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