EU leaders resist push for elected Commission chief, merging of posts

European Union leaders rejected on Friday a push to have the head of the EU's executive European Commission determined by voting in elections to the European Parliament, or to merge that job with that of the chairman of EU summits.Both initiatives are part of a power-struggle in Brussels between EU institutions like the Commission and Parliament which want to gain more control and European governments, known as the European Council, which does not want to cede it.Donald Tusk, the chairman of EU