After a week of psychodrama, the Christian Democrats of the European People’s Party (EPP), the Social Democrats (S&D) and the Liberals (Renew) sealed on Wednesday, November 20, an agreement that should allow the new Commission to take office on November 1Ahem December. On November 13, the same people refused to confirm the seven commissioners who had yet to be confirmed. Meanwhile, the discussions have become heated, the concessions are as difficult as they are minimalist, and the issue will leave its mark on a fragmented and polarized chamber.
Almost six months after the European elections, which led to the renewal of the European Parliament and commissioners, the community institutions will finally be able to focus on the challenges facing the European Union: election of Donald Trump, war in Ukraine, conflict Israeli-Palestinian. , economic decline…
Since the June elections, in which right-wing and extreme-right forces advanced and environmentalists and liberals retreated, the stages have followed one another and, each time, they threaten the proper development of operations. In July, MEPs confirmed the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the Commission. The majority groups (EPP, S&D and Renew) on which it intends to rely have mobilized their troops. But without the support of the Greens he would not have obtained the necessary majority.
METROme Next, von der Leyen presented her team, organized around six executive vice presidents, including the Macronist Stéphane Séjourné (industrial strategy), the Spanish socialist Teresa Ribera (ecological transition) and the Italian Raffaele Fitto (cohesion), affiliated with the post-fascist party Fratelli. from Italy.
The Spanish Teresa Ribera in the viewer
After hearing the 26 candidates from November 4 to 12, the European Parliament gave the green light to 19 of them. The Hungarian Commissioner for Animal Health and Welfare, Oliver Varhelyi, and the six executive vice presidents, for their part, had to wait.
The EPP group in the European Parliament, where the Spaniards of the Popular Party have 22 deputies (out of 188), wanted the skin of Teresa Ribera, who in their eyes embodies the continuation of the green pact, now reviled in their ranks. To do this, it has taken great advantage of the tragedy of the recent floods in the Valencian Community, since Teresa Ribera has been, since 2018, Minister of Ecological Transition in Spain.
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