German conservative voted lead candidate for top EU job

HELSINKI (AP) — German conservative politician Manfred Weber has won the race to lead the European Union’s center-right parties into key EU elections in May.
Weber was endorsed with 492 of 619 valid votes Thursday at a European People’s Party Congress in Helsinki, ahead of former Finnish prime minister Alexander Stubb.
The 46-year-old Bavarian conservative will also be the candidate of the EPP — the most powerful group in the European Parliament — to be the next pre