EC President tells a decision on Commission’s President to finalise on Friday

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has told on Tuesday the European Union heads of government will propose to the European Parliament a candidate for the bloc’s top post of President on Friday.

Mr Van Rompuy has also told to have sent invitation letter to the EU leaders noted that the two-day summit will inaugurate on Thursday with a ceremony in the town of Ypres, North West Belgium, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I. Ypres was the place where heaviest battles of the Great War were fought between the Germans and the Allied forces.

The EC President, who chairs the EU summit meetings has mentioned in the letters to head members that the leaders will discuss the priority situations around the world as well as EU strategic agenda for coming five years.

On Friday in Brussels, the EU heads will sign the Association Agreements with Georgia and Moldova as well as the remainder of the Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with Ukraine.

The letter also mentions: “The third major item will be climate and energy, with a view to preparing the ground for a final package in October. We will also welcome Lithuania’s entry into the euro area and endorse the granting of candidate status to Albania.”

Mr Van Rompuy has added: “We will then turn to the decision proposing to the European Parliament a candidate for president of the Commission.”

In the meantime, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has also asked to conduct a voting from EU leaders on whether to appoint the former prime minister of Luxembourg Jean Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission if the leaders remain unable to agree on a “consensus-led approach” regarding their pick.

Mr Juncker –  the centre-right European People’s Party leader which topped European Parliament elections held this May, is a strong favourite and most likely to be nominated for the post, the EU’s executive, despite strong opposition from Mr Cameron.

Mr Cameron claims that Juncker – also the Eurogroup President, is too federalist and will be unable to reform the EU.

Still major EU countries like France, Germany and Italy are showing their support for Juncker.

However, many analysts have told that such an approach of making decision through voting would be highly exceptional as compared to the conventional way of deciding the leader of the EU executive body through consensus.

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