As EU leaders descended on Brussels on Monday (17 June) for an informal EU top job dinner that could see an early political deal on the issue, some asked for clarification as to the Portuguese top job candidate António Costa’s legal woes.
As Monday’s summit kicked off, EU leaders were widely expected to seal a quick ‘political agreement’, and incumbent European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was slated for a second term.
“There seems to be an increasing amount of consensus” around the post of commission chief in particular, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte…
