Two Commission president frontrunners drop out of race

Two of the frontrunners for the top job in the EU - the president of the European Commission - have apparently ruled themselves out of the race.

Former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, whose candidature was torpedoed ten years ago by the UK as he was considered "too federalist", said on Tuesday (9 March) that "remakes are the worst films that there are".

Similarly, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister whose name has been mentioned most frequently as a possibl...