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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11112

2 July 2014
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) commission
S&D and EPP cling to the 'Spitzenkandidaten' precedent

Strasbourg, 01/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - European Parliament President Martin Schulz - who has just been re-elected to his post - believes that the Spitzenkandidaten system (whereby each European party chooses a lead candidate for the Commission presidency) “will be maintained. I don't think we'll go backwards”. The fact that the EU heads of state and government decided, on 27 May, to reassess the process of appointing the Commission president once the college is in place logically means...

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONSTITUTIVE SESSION
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