EU Commission appointee von der Leyen to seek parliament approval

German Ursula von der Leyen, appointed by European Union leaders as the next head of the bloc's executive, will attend later on Wednesday a session of the European Parliament, the approval of which she needs to take on the job.

An official with the assembly's largest faction, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), said von der Leyen would be in the parliament - sitting in the French city of Strasbourg - on Wednesday afternoon and attend the group's meeting at 1300 GMT.