Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE) has assumed a key role in the negotiations over who will occupy the top posts in the European Union following the Sunday elections. At a summit in Brussels on Tuesday, European leaders met to discuss nominations for the new heads of the European Commission, European Council, European Parliament and Central European Bank, as well as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Sánchez’s influence could be crucial in the spat over EU job posts, where German interests clash against the French The selection must take into account geographic and political criteria, as well as gender and the size of the countries. “In the real world it is always difficult to achieve a perfect balance,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, at the summit. Sánchez has become a key figure in these negotiations, which are shaping up to be the most complicated in the history of the EU club, given that neither of the parliament’s major groups – the European People’s Party (EPP) or the Party of European Socialists (PES) – achieved a clear majority at the European election on May 26. The results have… Read full this story
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