EU averts leadership crisis in key vote
London | The European Union wriggled out of a full-blown political crisis on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) after its fractious Parliament narrowly confirmed outgoing German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen as the next president of its huge Brussels bureaucracy, the European Commission.
Dr von der Leyen formally takes up her job on November 1, succeeding Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker. The big jobs in her in-tray are Brexit, which is scheduled for October 31, and building a relationship with US President Donald Trump to avert a looming trade war.
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