Race to lead European Investment Bank heats up

“The big question is: does the BBB want to govern? Are they willing to compromise, as they originated as a protest party?” Sander Tordoir of the Centre for European Reform told Playbook. 

...Next week, the EU’s climate chief Frans Timmermans is set to be crowned leader of a joint GreenLeft-Labor list, which is now leading POLITICO’s Poll of Polls, just ahead of the VVD and the BBB. So who knows, maybe fears of beating the 300-day coalition search record again is unnecessary. “If this consolidation in the campaign continues and Timmermans gets the most seats, the coalition search might go smoother than everyone initially thought,” Tordoir said.