EU – President

Belgian politician Charles Michel has been EU President since the end of 2019. O Saturday he said that he is standing for a seat in the European Parliament in June. If he is elected he will resign as EU President. Michel_Johanna Geron_rtr
EU President Charles Michel will stand in the European Parliament elections in June. If elected, he will leave the post of President of the European Union, he announced in an interview with the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. “The European Council will be able to plan and appoint my successor at the end of June or the beginning of July,” Michel told the newspaper. The President of the EU is elected by the EU Heads of State or Government for a term of two and a half years. You can be re-elected once, which Michel was in 2019. His mandate will thus expire on 30 November 2024. According to De Standaard, European Commissioner Didier Reynders may be eyeing the job of President. /ritzau/De Standaard/