With the exception of the Liberal group, the main political groups of the European Parliament have all officially appointed their candidates to take over from German Social Democrat Martin Schulz, in the elections to be held on Tuesday, 17 January 2017 in Strasbourg, at the next plenary session.
The last to declare, the Greens/EFA group, chose Jean Lambert of the UK, who was up against Germany's Rebecca Harms, at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday 15 December. This decision came as a...