The way in which Roberta Metsola’s re-election as leader of the European Parliament and the European Parliament Bureau election went off may give an indication of how the political groups likely to approve the candidacy of German Christian Democrat Ursula von der Leyen for the presidency of the European Commission will behave on Thursday 18 July.
Unlike in previous elections, the Maltese Christian Democrat was re-elected for a further two and a half years at the head of the Chamber,...