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Germany's Greens to have right to nominate European Commissioner

FILE PHOTO: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a news conference ahead of the G20 Summit and the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo

Germany's Greens party will have the right to nominate the country's European Commissioner if the Commission President is not from Germany, according to coalition agreement seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Germany's current European Commissioner, and the current Commission President, is Ursula von der Leyen, a German from outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

(Reporting by Maria Sheahan, editing by Thomas Escritt)

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