After the European elections to the top posts will be filled. It is not only the powerful President of the Commission. Parliament and heads of government have to put together a big compromise package. From Brussels Bernd Riegert.
The personnel package of the EU might still contain Surprises
If it were up to Manfred Weber, the top candidate of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, it could all be quite simple. He stands for the largest group in the Parliament and should be nominated by the heads of state and government at their special summit in Brussels for the Post of EU Commission President. Weber, whose group is roughed after the election on Sunday of 41 seats to 180 seats, know that he has no majority in Parliament. Therefore, he has all the other factions, except the right-wing populists and the Left, asked to cooperate. Social-Democrats, greens and Liberals, however, have their own candidates and ideas, such as the search for the new President of the Commission of the EU should be run.
What are the chances of Weber?
Many of the 28 heads of state or government is simple, the Weber equation. First, you want to leave your proposal for the most important Post in Brussels, not by the Parliament, and, secondly, you continue to have doubts as to the personal Suitability of the German candidate, and thirdly, you need to put together a whole package of five personnel decisions, making compromises necessary. Manfred Weber could be increased in the course of the process that begins today in the first place and maybe ending in June, a victim of the consideration. Officially, the conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel supported the candidate Manfred Weber, but out of diplomatic circles, it is said, it was in the sense of a “large European solution” ready to compromise. The President of France, Emmanuel Macron rejects the logic that only the top candidate of the European election battle EU Commission President. He would support the liberal Danish EU Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager. Macrons party “Republic on the way”, which in France was only second behind the right-wing populists, working together in the EU Parliament with the liberals, which, in turn, Vestager.
Five candidates for the post of CEO of the Commission, Manfred Weber (re.) expects great opportunities. Margrethe Vestager (3. re.) it could be also.
Prior to the special summit of the heads of state and government there was a whole series of the September meeting, the coordination circles and rounds of Exploratory talks. The previous presidents of the Parliament have been discussing. The French President met with the heads of government of Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. Emmanuel Macron put out feelers even more EU-critical Visegrad group of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban propagated the “illiberal democracy”, which is the opposite of what the Frenchman wants, but Orban rejects Manfred Weber as a candidate for the Executive chair of the Commission and could be an ally.
Five Top Post
To occupy also the President of the European Central Bank, the President of the European Council, the EU, in addition to the EU Commission high representative for foreign Affairs and the President of the Parliament. For the five top slots in a balance between the large and small EU States is taken into account, between the rich and the poor countries and party families. The round of the 28 heads of state and government is just as fragmented and varied as the factions in the Parliament. The conservative and liberal government leaders are in the majority, but some are not really capable of action. Austria, after the deselection of the conservative Chancellor, not government. Belgium’s national elections since Sunday without a Federal government. In Spain, Finland and Estonia, coalition negotiations are underway. The UK is due to the Brexits anyway a special case. No one knows exactly what the populist government in Italy actually. Italy has held three top posts: President of the European Central Bank, EU foreign Minister and President of Parliament. Rome, therefore, not on their own candidates?
Merkel (re.) and Macron pulling strings in the Background: Without France and Germany, there are no Entscheidungn
It is probable that the heads of state and government will agree tonight on a method, but not on specific names. The outgoing President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, will get the order until to the next regular summit on June 21. To make June a proposal for a staff package. Probably will be the first to forgive, the European Central Bank. If you go to the German Federal Bank President Jens Weidman, the French, the right of access to the Post of President of the European Commission, is one of the many theories that are currently being discussed in Brussels in the European quarter. “Or maybe Vice versa?” the EU expert Janis Emmanouilidis notes. In the end, the Director of the think tank “European Policy Centre believes”, could the heads of state and government also a candidate for the top post out of the hat draw, no one has yet been had on the bill.
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EU elections: Europe hostile parties to lay
The senior members of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok (CDU), warned that the top-level staff auszukungeln this time in back rooms in Brussels. You should the voters before the election, not give the impression that you also voted for the President of the European Commission, and afterwards do so, as all of this was not meant to be so. Brok is no longer part of the new Parliament and adopted with this reminder. Personnel decisions are rarely in the public debates on the marketplace, the us and EU to the concerns of diplomats. The top candidate of the social Democrats, Frans Timmermans, said on election night, the people go more to the topics, i.e. climate change, environmental protection, Migration and prosperity. “The people should not be so important. If you’re tackling the issues which need to don’t care, just grabs you,” said the Dutchman.