Europe's top jobs: EU leaders agree on top picks for Commission, ECB

In the end, France and Germany overcame their differences and those of smaller states wary of a grand bargain that sidelined pledges of favoring lead candidates in European elections for the EU's most prestigious posts. How different will the next five years be?

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The future of Europe is being decided. At least for the next five years. No surprise to see the hard bargaining over top jobs at the Commission, the EU parliament and the European Central Bank go to extra time. The stakes could not be higher and citizens know it. They turned out in greater numbers to vote in last May's EU elections and between shades of populists and federalists, left and right, those who worry about Russia, China, the US which has announced fresh trade tarifs.

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