Nationalist parties failed to make any significant gains in the election, and then large Western European status quo powers hand-picked federalists for the top
EU jobs. In particular, the choice of Ursula von der Leyen to be the next president of the European Commission -- making her the first German to hold the post in a half-century -- seemed to confirm Germany's continued dominance in Europe.
Nationalist parties failed to make any significant gains in the election, and then large Western European status quo powers hand-picked federalists for the top
EU jobs. In particular, the choice of Ursula von der Leyen to be the next president of the European Commission - making her the first German to hold the post in a half-century - seemed to confirm Germany's continued dominance in Europe.
European governments had agreed to back Lagarde on Tuesday after hours of negotiations over a package of top
EU jobs.
Summary: The choices for the top four
EU jobs show that the bloc is planning for the long-term
(Alliance News) - The race to fill top
EU jobs moves to European Parliament on Wednesday as MEPs elected in May vote to choose a new president.
LEO Varadkar has been accused of "putting right-wing politics ahead of Ireland's interests" in the logjam over top
EU jobs.
Frustrated at fellow leaders' inability to agree on who should hold the top
EU jobs shaping policy for more than half a billion citizens, Macron on Monday gave a testy "non" to others joining the club for now.
BRUSSELS -- European Council President Donald Tusk Monday suspended the summit of EU leaders after failing to agree on the candidates for top
EU jobs. (Issued at 16:10 local time Or 13:10 GMT)
The meeting will focus on the bloc's future strategic agenda, but the most difficult business will be carving up top
EU jobs, with a transition of power underway in Brussels.
And, of course, George Osborne stated that if we voted to leave the
EU jobs would be lost, house prices would fall and he would have to announce a new budget which would be very harsh.
WITH the EU elections out of the way, the horsetrading over a host of top
EU jobs, including who replaces Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank (ECB), will ratchet up.
France's President Emmanuel Macron has taken it upon himself to act as figurehead for the centrist and liberal parties hoping to shut the nationalists out of key
EU jobs and decision-making.