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Politico (27 June 2024)

BY BARBARA MOENS, AITOR HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES, JAKOB HANKE VELA, JACOPO BARIGAZZI AND GIORGIO LEALI

EU leaders have chosen Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as European Commission president, six EU diplomats told POLITICO.

At a meeting in Brussels, the national leaders also picked Portugal’s António Costa and Estonia’s Kaja Kallas for the most senior positions at the European Council and the EU’s foreign policy service, respectively.

The decision to name three experienced politicians into top EU roles was a seemingly safe bet by leaders to maintain the power of its centrist coalition amid a stronger hard-right showing in France, Germany and other parts of the EU in the European election.

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