Ursula von der Leyen maintains her confidence in Teresa Ribera as Vice-President of Competition and Fair and Clean Transition, despite the questioning of her candidacy by the European People’s Party, which maintains in the air its support for the proposed candidate by Pedro Sanchez.
“The president has placed her confidence in the group of candidates for commissioners and the confirmation process is underway. Obviously, nothing has changed compared to this initial position,” responded European Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer to the specific question of whether Germany maintains its confidence in Ribera after the Valencia disaster.
The European People’s Party, which aligned itself with the delegation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the point of endangering the majority that supports the community government, questioned Ribera’s management within DANA in a tense examination during from which the Spanish delegation arrived to suggest that he would end up being held responsible for the tragedy.
“The president hopes and wishes that the new college of commissioners can start its work as quickly as possible,” Mamer added of Von der Leyen’s intention for the college of commissioners to gain the confidence of the European Parliament after the frenetic day Tuesday.
The EPP intends to delay the decision on Ribera until he appears in Congress next week. However, the sources in the group led by Manfred Weber do not even think that they will ultimately support him – their Yeah is essential for the nomination to take place – and they make it a condition that the socialists support as vice president the far-right candidate Giorgia Meloni, Raffaele Fiito, and the far-right Hungarian commissioner.
The Socialists consider that this condition violates the agreement reached in July to support Ursula von der Leyen for a second term. “Today, the vote on the next college of commissioners is at stake”, declares the S&D in a press release after the group’s meeting: “The EPP leadership has broken the political agreement of the pro-democratic forces European Parliament during in the name of the destructive program of the Spanish People’s Party which attacks the Executive Vice-President-designate Teresa Ribera The Spanish People’s Party is trying to make Teresa Ribera the scapegoat for its failure to deal with the most catastrophic floods of recent European history, with more than 200 deaths, and took the EPP hostage, putting the entire European Union on the verge of bankruptcy in the most irresponsible way.
