EU leaders fail again to agree on top jobs
By Bloomberg
07 July 2019 |
10:18 am
EU leaders fail again to agree on who will take the bloc’s top jobs. This follows a 20-hour session that ended without a breakthrough. France and Germany have been wrangling for weeks over a jobs package centered on the nomination of the next European Commission president.
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