EU leaders will reconvene in Brussels on Tuesday (2 June) to continue their discussions about who should lead the EU institutions the coming five years.
Frans Timmermans is still a frontrunner to become president of the European Commission, to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker.
For the past five years Timmermans was Juncker's right-hand man as the 'first vice-president' of the commission, a title Juncker introduced.
Timmermans successfully lead his centre-left Labour party to vict...
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