For the love of country or Parliament? The race for the European People’s Party nomination for European Parliament president is looking like a dead heat between French MEP Alain Lamassoure and Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness. While Germans in the group are firmly behind McGuinness, left leaners in the center-right bloc have questioned what her stance would be on Brexit as a politician from a country urging lenience with the Brits. Those MEPs are standing with Lamassoure. But our sources say that at the last EPP meeting in Strasbourg, McGuinness reassured her colleagues she would not go easy on the U.K. …read more
Source: European Voice
