The European Parliament is torn aside over the appointment of commissioners | EUROtoday

While the struggle in Ukraine continues on the borders of the Union, the Americans have elected Donald Trump and the European financial system is in full swing, the neighborhood establishments have been working at a gradual tempo for six months. After the European elections on June 9, the Commission was to be in working order on June 1^er December. But the appointments of commissioners are divisive throughout the European Parliament, the far proper is in ambush, the German electoral marketing campaign can also be coming into the talk and it’s now doable that we should wait a bit longer.

A primary step was taken in July when MEPs confirmed the reappointment of Ursula von der Leyen as president of the neighborhood govt. This designation made it doable to validate the parliamentary majority on which the German can in principle rely. Namely the Christian Democrats of the European People’s Party (EPP), the primary political group within the European Parliament, the Social Democrats (S&D), who got here in second place after the June election, and the liberals of Renew, who’re in fifth place. rank.

From now on, these political allies should put money into every of the commissioners who will encompass Ursula von der Leyen, earlier than voting on your entire faculty. Last week, the European Parliament confirmed 19 of them. But for the remaining seven, the three teams of the “von der Leyen majority” can’t agree and their presidents – Manfred Weber (PPE), Iratxe Garcia Perez (S&D) and Valérie Hayer (Renew) – don’t have been solely in a position to word the blockage, throughout a gathering with the President of the Commission, Wednesday November 13.

“Taken hostage”

If, within the coming days, the protagonists of this disaster don’t discover an settlement, the vote in Strasbourg on your entire faculty won’t be able to happen on November 27, as deliberate, and the entry into workplace of the Commission might be deferred. “There’s still time. This is our responsibility and we take it very seriously. Especially when we see what is happening in the world”, desires to imagine Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament.

Of the seven commissioners awaiting their investiture, together with six govt vice-presidents, three pose issues – the Hungarian Oliver Varhelyi, appointed for well being and animal welfare, the Spaniard Teresa Ribera (for ecological transition and competitors) and the Italian Raffaele Fitto (for cohesion). But the destiny of others, together with that of Frenchman Stéphane Séjourné (industrial technique), is not going to be resolved till theirs has been the topic of a compromise.

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