EU Council president Charles Michel has said he will step down early from his job in order to run in European Parliament elections in June.
"If I am elected, I will take the oath. I will then exercise my duties as president of the European Council until I take the oath as a member of the European Parliament in mid-July," he said in an interview with Belgian media late on Saturday (6 January).
"As a European leader, I want to be accountable for my work over the past four years, p...
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