Voting against Italy would lead
to tensions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after the EU
summit put off debate on appointments for another day amid
opposition from Italy, the Visegrad Group, and other countries
to some of the proposed new occupants of the top jobs.
"Voting against the entire Visegrad Group and a country like
Italy would be very difficult" because "it would lead to
tensions" in the future," the chancellor said.
She said the EU leaders want to reach "the highest consensus
possible".
Merkel said "I'm aware that we are giving a bad image to the
citizens, but we are working to find a compromise".
Earlier Premier Giuseppe Conte said the "prefabricated Osaka
package" including Dutch Socialist Frans Timmermans as new
European Commission President had left him and 10-11 other
countries "perplexed" and he had voted against it.
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