On the eve of the European elections (see EUROPE B12263A1), the resolutely pro-European political groups in the European Parliament reiterated their support, on Sunday 26 May, for the institutional innovation of lead candidates (‘Spitzenkandidats’) of a European political party, which made it possible in 2014 to appoint the Luxembourger Christian Democrat Jean-Claude Juncker to head the European Commission.
There therefore seems to be a political majority in the new European...