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EU leaders negotiating the bloc’s top jobs have agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as European Commission president, sources involved in the talks told dpa on Tuesday. As part of the deal, negotiators also agreed that former Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa is to be the next European Council president. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is to be the European Union’s new foreign policy chief. The agreement comes ahead of a summit of EU leaders on Thursday and Friday in Brussels to decide on who is to lead the European Union’s institutions for the next five years. …

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