EU leaders representing the three main political groups in the bloc have agreed, on Tuesday, to put European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen forward for a second term.<\/p>\n
The European Union\u2019s 27 leaders head to Brussels on Thursday for a two-day summit intended to divide up the bloc\u2019s top jobs in the wake of this month\u2019s European Parliament elections.
\nAhead of the gathering, six leaders acting as chief negotiators have reached a deal that now needs to garner support from a weighted majority of 15 leaders at the summit.<\/p>\n
The accord divvies up the key posts among the alliance dominating the parliament: The centre-right European People\u2019s Party (EPP) and its partners, the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the centrist Renew Europe.
\nIn addition to returning the EPP\u2019s von der Leyen as commission chief, it taps former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa of the S&D as European Council president, and Renew\u2019s Kaja Kallas, the current Estonian premier, as the EU\u2019s foreign policy \u201chigh representative.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same trio of names had emerged during an informal first meeting in Brussels last week, but leaders had failed to seal the deal on that occasion.
\nThe six negotiators were Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk for the EPP, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the S&D, and French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for Renew.
\nIn Berlin, the head of Germany\u2019s Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, confirmed the leaders\u2019 agreement ahead of a meeting of his party, to which von der Leyen belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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