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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming under pressure to support European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second term in office, should her conservative bloc come first in next week’s European Parliament elections. The election winner has the right to propose the next commission president, the head of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. “The EPP has nominated Ursula von der Leyen as candidate for the office of commission president, and if we win the election, then w…

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