The six EU leaders who negotiated the names also each represent the EPP, S&D or RenewEuropean leaders are due to announce their choices for the top jobs at the EU’s helm at a two-day summit in Brussels, with current Commission president Ursula von der Leyen set to be nominated for a second mandate, according to BBC.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who heads the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) bloc, was notably not included in the talks – despite the fact that the ECR has displaced Renew as the third largest group in the European Parliament following European elections earlier this month.

Addressing the Italian parliament on Wednesday, Ms Meloni angrily said European voters had asked the EU to “take a different path to the one it has travelled on so far”.
Without naming names, she criticised “those who argue that citizens are not mature enough to take certain decisions, and [who believe] that oligarchy is essentially the only acceptable form of democracy”.

The summit is also being attended by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who thanked EU leaders for opening membership negotiations with his country earlier this week.

Other topics on the agenda include security and defence, with leaders from Poland and the Baltics asking the EU for funds to build a defence line along their border with Russia.

Earlier this week, it transpired that six EU leaders had reached a consensus on the names to put forward – each of them hailing from one of three parties that dominate the European Parliament.
They are:
Ursula von der Leyen, from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), for a second mandate as European Commission President
Former Portuguese prime minister António Costa of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) for European Council president
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of the centrist Renew Europe for the role of EU’s foreign policy high representative
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