While the Heads of State and Government welcomed, on Tuesday 2 July, the agreement reached after 48 hours of negotiations on appointments to key posts (see other news), in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, enthusiasm was much more mixed.
This is a "difficult day" for Manfred Weber. The current Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament acknowledged this after a meeting with his group. The German had announced earlier in the day that he would not run for President of the...