The Greens/EFA Group, now the fourth largest political force in the European Parliament, is having difficulty accepting the agreement on senior European posts negotiated by Christian-Democrat, Social Democrat and Liberal leaders at the recent European Summit (see EUROPE B12287A1).
One of the main weaknesses of this agreement, which allowed the German Christian Democrat Ursula von der Leyen to be nominated as candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, is, according to the...