Voters May Determine EU Chief Executive for First Time
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The European Union’s 400 million voters may be about to determine the chief executive of the world’s largest economic bloc for the first time.
For that to happen, national leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will have to renounce their right to pick the head of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. The commission proposes EU laws, acts as the bloc’s antitrust authority, administers its 140 billion-euro ($192 billion) budget, negotiates trade accords and runs a European foreign service.