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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8733
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/commission president

Jo Leinen says candidate should only be proposed after having consulted parliament and calls for parallel European Council and EP meetings in Strasbourg

Brussels, 23/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - Jo Leinen MEP declared in a press statement that the European "government" should be the result of European elections, which would mean the newly elected European Parliament having to be consulted before the selection of a European Commission presidential candidate. The German social democrat, who is also the president of the European Union of Federalists see the Commission as the "government" of the EU and deplores the "undignified wrangling" at the...

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