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European Council President Charles Michel is to stand for election to the European Parliament in June, Belgian media reported on Sunday. Michel’s decision means that he would step down as head of the EU body that brings together the bloc’s heads of state and government should he be elected. EU leaders could then discuss a replacement for him at the end of June or beginning of August, he told Le Soir and De Standaard. “It is relatively easy to arrange the succession,” the former Belgian prime minister was reported as saying. Michel told the newspapers he would campaign at the head of the list o…

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