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Europe’s be the main focus. Far more important
Only is the debate over the EU’s 2019-2024
Decision strategic agenda. After an informal
summit in Sibiu, Romania, earlier this
The article below was written in May month, European leaders will return to
2019. this issue in earnest later in June. And
for all of the attention paid to the EU’s
As the European Parliament election institutions, it is EU heads of state who
approaches, Europe is abuzz with will craft the bloc’s agenda. In other
speculation over who will lead the words, member-state governments,
main European Union institutions operating through the European
for the next five years. Among Council, will be the actors to watch
the positions up for grabs are after the election results are in.
those currently held by European
Commission President Jean-Claude When the European Economic
Juncker; European Council President Community, the precursor to the EU,
Donald Tusk; Federica Mogherini, the was established in 1957, its primary
EU High Representative for Foreign objective was to secure the peace
Affairs and Security Policy; and between France and Germany,
European Central Bank President starting with a customs union for
Mario Draghi. industrial goods and a common
agricultural policy. Read more.
Personnel issues are hardly trivial.
In politics, personality matters, and Courtesy of Project Syndicate
it has often played a pivotal role in
determining the EU’s trajectory. Still, Carl Bildt, former Swedish
the leadership name game should not Prime Minister, Chair of the
Global Commission on Internet
Governance and Co-Chair of the
European Council on Foreign
Relations.
European gaining ground. The results suggest "What happened was not really what
Elections a complicated future for the EU, as a lot of people were fearing, that
Results voters look for new ways forward. there would be a surge of the far-right
populists" the current co-chair of the
Europe's traditional centrist coalition Populist, Eurosceptic parties across European Council on Foreign Relations
lost its majority in the European Europe saw gains, but less than some Carl Bildt said.
Union's parliamentary elections with pre-election polls had predicted -
far-right populist parties and liberal, and what pro-EU forces had feared. "There was an increase by the far-
pro-European Union parties both And the various nationalist parties' right, but fairly marginal and far less
differences over issues like migration than people had predicted."
and attitudes toward Russia could
cloud prospects for a united right.
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