The European People's Party (EPP) will not sacrifice its candidate for President of the European Commission, Manfred Weber. At least not at this stage. This is the message that the EPP leaders, meeting on Tuesday 28 May ahead of the informal European summit, sought to communicate to the leaders of European political families who also performed well on Sunday 26 May, namely the ALDE Liberals, the PES Social Democrats and the EGP environmentalists.
Political families may be tempted to...