Time is running out to unblock the negotiations for the start of the new European Commission on December 1st. The political tensions caused last week by the appearance in the European Parliament of the third vice-president of the government, Teresa Ribera, seem to be starting to recover. and that begins to find a way to reach an agreement, in writing, which gives the green light to the entry of the current Minister of Ecological Transition into the community executive. Although, for now, the meetings end unfinished and with a view to continuing this Wednesday.
It is the exchange that will allow us to get out of the situation. The German Christian Democrats, a party of which the head of the community executive, Ursula von der Leyen herself, is a member, could lift their veto in exchange for an opening hand by the Socialists with the Italian Prime Minister’s candidate, Giorgia Meloni . Raffaele Fitto would become executive vice-president of Reforms and Cohesion in exchange for confirm Ribera’s vice-presidency.
Negotiations between political parties are now moving towards a written document that legitimizes the talks. Popular European sources have shown their willingness to give Ribera the green light. The socialists, for their part, see this written agreement as a commitment of pro-European forces, between popular, socialists and Renew for the next legislature, and not as an exchange of endorsements of candidates. In any case The conversations continue.
The package of candidates for community vice-presidents saw its vote postponed last Tuesday until this week. What if the people demanded as a condition that Ribera appear before the Congress of Deputies to give explanations on the management of Dana and subordinated his support to the commitment that resign if she was charged for the same reason, The socialists used the support of the Italian Fratelli d’Italia as a bargaining chip.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has lifted the threat of vetoing the Italian candidate and the candidate of the authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister. “All member countries of the European Union have the right to have a commissioner, It’s true and we must respect it,” he declared after the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). “That’s what the treaties say and that’s what the European social democratic family”, he indicated. excluding the possibility that the socialists would try to veto the proposed candidate Meloni if the PP insists on overthrowing Ribera.
Von der Leyen’s future team at the European Commission has 19 members who have already obtained approval from the European Parliament. Time is running out to find a common point that will unlock the vice-presidencies. The prospect is that on November 27, the plenary session of the European Parliament will approve the next College of Commissioners and that the new Community Executive starts operating on December 1. THE The meeting of the Conference of Presidents which will take place tomorrow in the European Parliament should resolve the issue.
At this meeting it is expected that the six vice presidents of the community, including Ribera and Fitto, will receive approval. Hungarian candidate Olivér Várhelyi, whose aspirations for the position of Commissioner for Animal Health and Safety, also failed to pass the first scrutiny of the European Parliament.
The context is the examination of the Spaniard in the European Parliament, which has become a focus of nationwide reproaches that the popular have brandished towards the third vice-president, for her responsibility in the management of Dana. But wear and tear has also reached Brussels which sees
