BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST – Eastern European states have ended up empty-handed in the EU top jobs bonanza after they expended all their political capital in successfully blocking Dutch Socialist Frans Timmermans from becoming president of the executive European Commission.
Reuters: EU’s eastern bloc ignored in top jobs deal
Leaders of Visegrad countries (L/R); Poland's prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Slovakia's Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini are welcomed by European Council President Donald Tusk ahead of European Union (EU) summit at EU Commission Headquarters in Brussels on May 28, 2019.
