Sentence examples for candidate for commission from inspiring English sources

We must focus on finding the best candidate for commission president.

Under the Lisbon Treaty, E.U. member states have to "take into account" the result of next May's elections before proposing a candidate for commission president.

I myself was a candidate for commission president in 2004 (with support from France and Germany) but was blocked by Tony Blair for being too pro-European.

"Tomorrow all of Europe will be talking about Syriza," said the 39-year-oldTsipras, also the European Left's candidate for commission president.

On the continent the main federalist parties stated who their candidate for commission president was, and these candidates appeared at public meetings.

Merkel and Renzi are also understood to have concerns about the spitzenkandidaten system, in which the main pan-EU groups in the European parliament nominated a candidate for commission president.

The word is applied in most nations to candidates for commission who are students in national military schools.

Cameron will tell Van Rompuy at the Downing Street meeting that unless the European Council is prepared to consider other candidates for commission president he will call a vote to make his fellow leaders set out their positions on Juncker's nomination.

Prominent European leaders, including Angela Merkel, have rejected the idea that whichever party emerges with the most seats in the European parliament will simply have its candidate nominated for commission president.

Army Order 178, later the same year, provided a standard set of regulations, stating that the scheme was intended to provide "a standardized degree of elementary military training with a view to providing candidates for commissions".

He might even have been a plausible candidate for the commission presidency at the last changeover in 1995, had he not suffered the political handicap of being British.