The management cabal is on the prime of the agenda when the EU’s heads of state and authorities collect in Brussels for a summit on Thursday and Friday.
Apart from von der Leyen, a majority of the international locations are in favor of Portugal’s ex-prime minister Antonio Costa as EU president – who governs the EU’s council of ministers and heads the summits – and Estonia’s prime minister Kaja Kallas as the brand new overseas minister, in keeping with DPA’s sources.
Additionally German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reviews the identical.
Similar record
Three knowledgeable sources instructed the newspaper that heads of state from six EU international locations – Poland’s Donald Tusk and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis from the conservative European Folks’s Get together (EPP), Germany’s Olaf Scholz and Spain’s Pedro Sánchez from the social democratic S & D, and France’s Emmanuel Macron and the Netherlands Mark Rutte from the liberal social gathering group Renew Europe (Renew) – on Tuesday agreed on the distribution.
Von der Leyen belongs to the social gathering group EPP, Costa is S & D, whereas Kallas belongs to Renew.
The record is strictly the identical because the one the EU international locations didn’t agree on at an off-the-cuff summit simply over per week in the past.
Waived declare
The EPP is alleged to have waived its earlier declare to take over the EU presidency midway by the interval. Formally, the EU president is elected for 2 and a half years at a time, however till now all three former presidents have served for 5 years.
To be nominated, Leyen will need to have the assist of a certified majority. Which means that not less than 20 out of 27 member states representing not less than 65 % of the EU’s inhabitants should stand behind her.
The president of the European Fee is taken into account a very powerful submit within the EU system.
As well as, it’s thought-about pretty sure that the EU Parliament will give its present president Roberta Metsola (EPP) one other time period. Nonetheless, it solely lasts two and a half years.
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2024-06-26 21:03:11