Giscard against parliament electing Commission president

The day after a lengthy debate in the Convention on future division of power in the EU where there was large consensus that the European parliament should elect the Commission president, the body's president has spoken out against it.

In an interview with Le Figaro on Tuesday, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing said that "the election of the Commission by the parliament risks ... a politization of the Commission." Maintaining that he is very "respectful" of the Convention and not trying to "pred...