EU leaders have endorsed a second five-year term for Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president, although she failed to win the backing of Italy, the bloc’s third-largest member state.
A majority of leaders at a Brussels summit on Thursday night agreed to von der Leyen remaining in post, alongside choosing former Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa as the next EU Council president, who chairs meetings of the 27 heads of government, and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as the bloc’s next chief diplomat.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni abstained, rather than supporting von der Leyen. Hungarian Premier Viktor Orbán voted against.
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