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full screen EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during this weekend’s Ukraine peace meeting in Switzerland. Stock photo. Photo: Alessandro Della Valle/AP/TT
The arena is raked for five more years with Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission.
A settlement can be completed today.
When the heads of state and government of the EU countries gather in Brussels at 6 p.m., it was originally intended to be just a preparatory probe into the situation after the EU elections.
Decisions about who you want to see in the EU’s heaviest top posts were only expected at the regular summit on 27-28 June.
But the question is whether the leaders are not in agreement already now.
More and more sources state to all kinds of news sites that there is broad support for a package solution with Germany’s von der Leyen as continued Commission President, Portuguese former Prime Minister António Costa as Council President and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as new foreign minister.
– Decisions will now be made very quickly on the most important positions that need to be filled in Europe so that the EU can act, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an interview with journalists from the German Springer Group this weekend – a clear sign of where the winds are blowing.
Regardless of what the heads of state and government say – and when they do it – the appointment of von der Leyen must also be approved by an absolute majority, at least 361 votes, in the EU Parliament. It can happen in mid-July at the earliest.