EU summit suspended, to reconvene on Tuesday

NEWS 01.07.201913:23
Europski parlament

European Council President Donald Tusk on Monday suspended the emergency EU summit, convened to choose new heads of European institutions, and scheduled a new meeting for Tuesday.

The European Council president has suspended the meeting and reconvened the European Council for Tuesday at 11am, his spokesman Preben Aamann announced.

EU leaders gathered at 8pm on Sunday, after which intensive bilateral and multilateral consultations followed and a plenary session began as late as 9.30pm. However, it only lasted until 11pm when bilateral consultations began again and lasted until 8am on Monday.

According to some proposals, Dutch Social Democrat Frans Timmermans would be the next European Commission president, the European People's Party would get two posts – the post of European Council president, to be filled by Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, and the post of European Parliament president, to be filled by the EPP's spitzenkandidat Manfred Weber of Germany; Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel of the Liberals group would be the next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, while Danish Liberal Margrethe Vestager would be First Vice-President of the Commission.