The 758 members of the European People’s Party (EPP) will be meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 November to decide who will be their candidate to take over from Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission.
The Christian-Democrat family is to choose between Manfred Weber of Germany, who heads the EPP Group at the European Parliament, and Alexander Stubb of Finland, the former prime minister and currently vice-president of the EIB.
Although it has...