The European Council will have to decide on the nomination by a qualified majority, taking into account election results, as envisaged by the Treaty of Lisbon which went into force on 1 December 2009, said Welle, adding that the European Council would have to consult the EP before agreeing on the nomination. If the EP does not accept the nominated candidate, the European Council will have to nominate a new one within a month.
Polls show that after six years of crisis, austerity and serious unemployment, elections will be marked by an increase in the popularity of ‘anti-European populists’, a term used in EU jargon to denote far-right and far-left, populist and Eurosceptical parties such as the French National Front (FN), the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), the Greek Syriza and the Italian Five Star Movement, which together could win almost a quarter of the vote.
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