In a letter to his opposite numbers at the European Parliament dated Monday 12 December, the President of the EPP group, Manfred Weber (Germany), called for support for an EPP candidate under the traditional agreement between the two major political groups of the Parliament (the one he chairs and the S&D), for the sake of the proper functioning of the legislative process and the fight against rising populism. This appeal does not seem to have had much effect on the current President of the...