As
it gets closer to the EU parliamentary elections it is also clearer that the
two main candidates for the top job of Commission President are just the
opposite face of the same coin. There is no major difference, in terms of EU
policies and choices, between Martin Schulz, from Germany and leader of the
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, meaning the social-democrat
head, and Jean-Claude Juncker, from Luxembourg and the front name for the
European People´s Party, the centre-right. Therefore, the question is more
about personalities than anything else. Some people would find Schulz more
attractive, they would say he might be more progressive, whatever that means in
the case of these two men, others would say that Juncker has more experience.
Between the two, it is obvious that Juncker is the one that has been around
longer, that knows more when it comes to the business of government and also
has been tested as the leader, for a very long period, of the finance
ministers´ Eurogroup. That makes him a better candidate. But politics is a very
complex field and competence is not always a criteria of success.
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