A statement towards David Cameron and Angela Merkel was made by Manfred Weber, the new head of the European People’s Party (EPP). “Juncker will be the next president of the European Commission and the European integration will continue”, he said.
Despite tomorrow’s celebration of Pentecost for Catholics, the negotiations to succeed Manuel Barroso as president of the EC are entering a critical phase tomorrow.

The newly elected head of the parliamentary group of the European People’s Party seeks to intervene through Sunday’s “Frankfurter Allgemeine” newspaper against both Cameron and Merkel, stating that his party is not going to back off, on that which concerns Jean-Claude Juncker’s candidacy.