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Michel sparks scramble to stop Orbán taking control of European Council
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“I have decided to run in the European elections in 2024,” Michel told Belgian media late on Saturday.
The European Council can anticipate and name a successor by end-June, early-July,” he said, adding that he would be running as the lead candidate for his Belgian centre-right Reformist Movement party.
That would leave Orbán – who has repeatedly been accused of holding European backing for Ukraine hostage over billions of euros of EU funding for Hungary frozen over a range of rule-of-law disputes – in effect running the council.
The wheeling and dealing would normally last months, culminating in the installation of the new commission in late November – which is when Michel’s term as council president was due to end.
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama of the European Centre for International Political Economy thinktank said it “merely moves the race for his successor six to nine months earlier”.
That would be “a nuisance for a couple of candidates who will be still stuck in national politics” he said, but it was “a tier-two job that is already earmarked for someone close to France and [on the] left”.
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