Italy remains the only member state to support making the process that allows European political parties to designate “Spitzenkandidaten” and the creation of transnational lists for the 2019 European elections part of electoral law (see EUROPE 11544).
At the end of November, member states’ ambassadors to the EU held a discussion on this issue, taking as their basis a paper from the Slovak Presidency. No significant breakthrough was made on the most political points. The Slovak document...