2024-06-12 02:05:00
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned he has not but determined whether or not he’ll assist EC President Ursula von der Leyen for one more time period on the head of the European Fee, DPA reported.
A day after the top of the European Parliament elections, Scholz gave a press convention the place he repeated his place that “the chairmanship of the fee must be primarily based on the democratic majority of the normal democratic events within the EP”. He added that within the coming weeks he would take into account whether or not to again Von der Leyen for one more time period on the head of the EU govt and that he had but to determine who he would again for numerous prime Brussels jobs.
Von der Leyen’s centre-right European Folks’s Occasion (EPP) gained Sunday’s election and stays the biggest bloc within the EP.
Von der Leyen, who’s a former minister from the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), referred to as on the social democratic and liberal events of the EU to assist her candidacy for a brand new mandate on the head of the EC, BTA reported.