EU elite to choose new executive: Leadership selection is too secretive

More than 200m of the 400m people entitled to vote in last week’s European elections did so. This marks a substantial increase in turnout since 2014, up from 43% to 51%. The extent to which their views influence the makeup of the executive selected to lead the EU for the next five years remains to be seen.

The term of European parliament president Antonio Tajani ends in July. Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and ECB bank president Mario Draghi step aside in October while European Council president Donald Tusk will move on the following month.