EU leaders pull all-nighter at summit on key posts BelfastTelegraph.co.uk European Union leaders have pulled an all-nighter at a summit but failed to agree on the list of candidates for the bloc’s key posts, with the marathon talks entering a second day. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/eu-leaders-pull-allnighter-at-summit-on-key-posts-38268642.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article38268638.ece/14708/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_6aca4014-4feb-4081-a937-5423d306057e_1 Email European Union leaders have pulled an all-nighter at a summit but failed to agree on the list of candidates for the bloc’s key posts, with the marathon talks entering a second day. The leaders trickled in for bilateral contacts throughout Sunday before officially convening at around 8pm. They have been locked in talks ever since amid deep divisions over how best to balance political, geographic and gender considerations among the 28 member nations. With the selection process bogged down for the second EU summit meeting in a row, the leaders are still considering Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to replace Christian Democrat Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the EU’s powerful executive arm, the European Commission. “Let’s see,” Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said of Mr Timmermans’s chances when briefly descending from the meeting room at EU headquarters at around breakfast time. The Timmermans option has deeply divided the European People’s Party (EPP) as it would surrender… Read full this story
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