EU leaders on Thursday formally nominated Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as president of the European Commission, according to diplomats.
Von der Leyen's nomination was informally agreed on Tuesday, but the formal decision was taken at Thursday's EU summit in Brussels.
Under the deal, former Portuguese prime minister António Costa will be the next president of the European Council - the assembly of national leaders - and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is the leaders' pick to be the European Union's next foreign policy chief.
The EU leaders' endorsement does not mean von der Leyen's second term is confirmed just yet. She still needs to win the support of a majority in the freshly elected European Parliament.
Von der Leyen's nomination comes on the back of her management of the Covid-19 pandemic and response to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
