You’re reading Rapporteur on Wednesday 13 May. Eddy Wax here in Brussels. This is our last edition of the week before a short break – we’ll be back on Monday. In the meantime, regular politics coverage continues on Euractiv.
Need-to-knows:
🟢 EPP-S&D battle for Parliament heats up
🟢 We set the record straight for Albania’s Edi Rama
🟢 Booking train travel is about to get easier
From the capital
Centre-right European Parliament leader Roberta Metsola is edging towards an unprecedented third term in 2027 – a move that would keep the role in EPP hands and make the Maltese politician the institution’s longest-serving president.
But only if she can secure a majority.
Standing in her way are the Socialists, who insist the presidency should return to them under Parliament’s longstanding informal practice of alternating the role between its two largest groups midway through the mandate.
Publicly, MEPs say it’s too early for such discussions. The vote is not due…
