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Frans Timmermans still has a good chance to become president of the European Commission (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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Who is Frans Timmermans?

by Peter Teffer, Brussels/Utrecht,
Frans Timmermans still has a good chance to become president of the European Commission (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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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