Leaders meet to elect EU president

Experts have said the president should be a technocrat who can provide unity and build consensus among the EU’s main institutions – the council of nations for the 27 member states, the European Commission and the European parliament.

Glyn Ford, a former Labour MEP, told Al Jazeera that building a political presence in Europe was one of the challenges a new president would face.

“Europe is bigger than the United States, its richer than the United States, it gives more to the developing world than the United States by far. But we don’t actually have the political presence,” he said.

“Now how do you develop that political presence?”

European leaders will also be seeking a name for a foreign-policy supremo for the bloc.

Source/Full Story: Al Jazeera English

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