''Mainstream parties block Euroskeptics from top Parliament posts'' By David M. Herszenhorn and Maïa de La Baume

''Mainstream, pro-EU political parties in the European Parliament moved aggressively to block Euroskeptic and extremist groups from claiming several prominent committee leadership posts on Wednesday.
That blocking effort enraged anti-establishment forces and potentially put at risk an overall deal on the EU’s future leadership.

One group leader, Ryszard Legutko of the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), pointedly warned that his MEPs were less likely to support the deal on top jobs agreed by European leaders last week after one of their members — former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło — was blocked from becoming chairwoman of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee..''
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