Several socialists at the European Parliament and the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, want Martin Schulz to remain president of the European Parliament for the second part of his term of office, but the EPP Group is refusing to admit defeat and is expected to organise primaries to designate an EPP candidate for this job on 14 December.
The names of those in the running are already known as France’s Alain Lamassoure, Ireland’s Mairead McGuinness and Slovenia’s...