nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190704-232720-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190704s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190704-232720-0 doi eng 342 23 Armstrong, Kenneth Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-6997-8566 Has the Spitzenkandidaten System Failed and Should We Care? Armstrong, Kenneth Verfassungsblog 2019-07-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The nomination of Germany’s Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen is both a beginning and an end. It begins a new chapter for the European Commission with its first woman president. But also appears to mark the end of the Spitzenkandidaten approach to the selection of European Commission presidents. Indeed, all of the ‘lead candidates’ of the European political groupings were left empty-handed. If this is to be the demise of Spitzenkandidaten, will its passing be mourned? CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 EU Commission European Parliament Spitzenkandidaten Process Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/has-the-spitzenkandidaten-system-failed-and-should-we-care/ raw object