French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici speaks to media after an official meeting with Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf in Bern March 6, 2014. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
PARIS (Reuters) - The race for the European Union's top leadership jobs just got a little murkier with news that France will put forward outgoing Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici as its nominee for a European Commission post.
That undermines the chances of two potential compromise candidates - both French - to head the executive body, in what is expected to be a tough fight between national governments and the European Parliament in June, with the added spice of a eurosceptic Britain following its own agenda.
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