The Spitzenkandidaten system is a real democratic advancement and it would be a mistake not to respect it, warned, on Friday 14 June, two EPP group veterans in the European Parliament, Alain Lamassoure of France and Elmar Brok of Germany, who have both left their MEP seats.
Assuring that they were not the spokespersons for their political family, who had topped the European elections on 26 May, they referred to the article in the Treaty that organises the appointment of the President of...