‘I miss her,’ says Juncker as EU heads meet without Theresa May
Posted by The Editor on May 9, 2019 1:57 pm
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Leaders forge ahead with a show of unity and plans to divide up bloc’s top jobs
EU leaders met without Theresa May on Thursday and launched the process of divvying up the bloc’s top jobs, with the European council president, Donald Tusk, announcing a strategy that could see the UK outvoted. Before the end of the year five EU jobs will fall vacant, including the presidents of the European commission, European central bank and Tusk’s own position.
At the meeting in the Romanian city of Sibiu, called to look ahead to the EU’s post-Brexit future, Tusk said he wanted EU leaders to agree nominations in June, saying decisions could be made via qualified majority voting if there was no unanimity. “Consensus is always better than voting,” he told journalists after the summit. “But I have no illusions that consensus will be easy or possible. And I will not wait three months.”