Merkel blows open race for top Brussels job
By Peter Spiegel, Alex Barker and James Fontanella-Khan in BrusselsAuthor alerts
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, blew open the race for the European Union’s most high-profile job on Tuesday night, saying a “broad tableau” of candidates should be considered for the European Commission presidency.
The declaration by Ms Merkel, made after a nearly five-hour summit in Brussels, dealt a serious blow to the presumptive frontrunner in the race, former Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the leading candidate for Ms Merkel’s own centre-right European People’s party.
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