Schinas: A Trump win will accelerate European integration

Europe needs a stable leadership in a world full of insecurities, European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas said at a conference on the island of Nisyros Saturday.

"With two wars in our neighborhood, with geopolitical insecurities, with a thousand risks, the opening of a new crisis of leadership at the heart of the European political system will have significant implications for Europe," warned Schinas during a dialogue with Tom Ellis, editor-in-chief of Kathimerini English Edition.

Schinas was referring to the - remote, but not non-existent - possibility of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen losing a vote of confidence in the European Parliament.

"If President von der Leyen doesn't get a vote of confidence in two weeks, Europe will be in turmoil," Schinas said.

The three groups backing von der Leyen's candidacy for a second...