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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190705-232646-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/throwing-the-eu-off-balance/ Throwing the EU Off Balance - How the Spitzenkandidaten Model Favours Large EU Member States and Undermines the EU’s Constitutional Equilibrium Bachmann, Klaus eng 2019-07-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 institutional balance Spitzenkandidaten Process Visegrád Group Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The battlefield after the European Council summits is still coated with dust, but damages to Central and Eastern Europe and more specifically the Polish and Hungarian government are already visible. There will be no representative of the new Member States (those that entered the EU in and after 2004) among the top jobs. This result is also the consequence of the Spitzenkandidaten model which works to the detriment of smaller Member States and parties and undermines the EU’s basic pillars.