Europe Spain's Prime Minister Sánchez does not attend EU summit
Due to the death of his father-in-law, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is not traveling to the EU summit in Brussels. Sánchez will delegate his vote for the negotiations at the meeting of EU heads of state and government to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a government spokesperson announced on Wednesday. This is what the European mechanisms provide for. At the top-level meeting this Thursday and Friday in Brussels, a decision is to be made on a personnel package for top EU posts, among other things.
26.06.2024, 19:21
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It is almost certain that the German CDU politician Ursula von der Leyen will be nominated for a second term as President of the EU Commission. An informal agreement reached by the heads of state and government of the major European party families prior to the summit also provides for the liberal Estonian head of government Kaja Kallas to be appointed EU foreign affairs commissioner and the social democratic former Portuguese head of government António Costa to be elected EU Council president. Sánchez negotiated the personnel package for the Social Democrats together with Scholz.
