The President of the S&D Group in the European Parliament, Udo Bullmann of Germany, refuses at this stage to discuss negotiations with the Christian Democrats of the European People's Party (EPP) to influence future appointments to senior European positions, convinced that the Twenty-Eight will propose to the next European Parliament a Spitzenkandidat to chair the European Commission and that the leading candidate on the social democratic list, the Dutchman Frans Timmermans, will be the most...