Good morning from Brussels, The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) remains optimistic about finding the necessary majority in the EU House next week to get Ursula von der Leyen re-elected but “takes nothing for granted”, an EPP source familiar with the matter told Euractiv. Currently, the EPP is working on convincing the potential “deviants” within its ranks. In the EU socialists camp, delegations “are not outspoken” about their voting intentions next week. However, they want to see clear commitments on their “key demands” for the next EU Commission. For their part, the Greens and EU Liberals focus on two issues: Politically, how the EPP’s right-wing faction will react to von der Leyen’s choice to turn to the Greens and not the hard-right ECR for support. Secondly, how von der Leyen will manage to satisfy all pro-EU groups’ policy priorities as “she has promised a lot of different things to a lot of different people”, a Renew official told Euractiv. Every word in her speech next week will matter, but not for SPD MEP Udo Bullmann, who said von der Leyen needs to agree on commitments “on paper”. Read all the details. | 