European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has repeated his support for the Spitzenkandidaten procedure to designate his successor in 2019 but has cast doubt on the feasibility of transnational lists at the forthcoming European elections in May 2019. He was speaking on Wednesday 14 February, presenting the Commission’s contribution on a number of institutional issues on the agenda of the informal European summit on Friday 23 February.
“I am very much of the mind that the heads of...