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Angela Merkel is the only woman leader in the centre-right EPP family (Photo: European People's Party)

Centre-right leaders to pick top EU commission candidate

European centre right leaders are gathering in Dublin on Thursday and Friday (6-7 March) to select their top candidate for the post of European Commission President.

With the Ukraine crisis taking over the EU agenda and an EU emergency summit on the issue taking place on Thursday in Brussels, the Dublin congress of the European People's Party (EPP) is only due to start later this evening (6 March).

Ukrainian opposition leaders Yulia Tymoshenko and Vitali Klitschko, as well as the...

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