“It is midday and there have been no surprises”. It was with a joke that Joseph Daul, the President of the European People's Party (EPP), took note, on Wednesday 17 October, of the closing date for applications to become the Spitzenkandidat of the Christian Democrat family.
The two candidates are: - Germany's Manfred Weber, currently the head of the EPP group at the European Parliament, and Alexander Stubb of Finland, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, who threw their hats...