The chair of the EPP group at the European Parliament, Manfred Weber of Germany, on Wednesday 5 September officially announced his hopes of becoming the Spitzenkandidat of the Christian Democrats in the European elections of May 2019.
“In 2019, the European elections will decide the future of the EU. Today is about the self-assertion of Europe and the defence of its values, because we are being challenged from the outside and the inside. It's about the survival of our...