Italy’s Gianni Pittella was re-elected by a large majority on Wednesday 7 December as head of the S&D group at the European Parliament, where he confirmed his aim to become its president when Martin Schulz leaves (EUROPE 11679).
Pittella also confirmed that he wants to put an end to the grand EPP-S&D coalition (founded by the outgoing German president) and is planning next week to have meetings with all of Parliament's groups, starting with the Greens/EFA and the GUE to test out whether...