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Commission tables end of 2018 deadline for EU lead candidates
By EUobserver
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed in a paper that political groups should have selected their lead candidate for the May 2019 European Parliament elections by the end of 2018. "In 2014, European political parties selected their candidates relatively late in the process, leaving only a few weeks for them to campaign and create a profile across the continent," the commission said in the document.