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Strasbourg – The EU Parliament approves the brand new EU Fee with 370 votes to 282.
Former Swedish EU Minister Jessika Roswall is given accountability for the atmosphere and water resilience within the new EU Fee, which takes workplace from December 1.
“It feels excellent. These are turbulent occasions, and it’s very pleasing to have such clear help from the Parliament. We’re all very prepared to start out and are really on the beginning blocks,” says Roswall.
Her first job as a commissioner shall be on Sunday when she travels to Saudi Arabia for a convention on water points. On Tuesday, she is going to then be thrown into difficult compromise negotiations between the EU Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers relating to a one-year postponement of the EU’s controversial new rules towards deforestation of rainforests.
“Extraordinarily essential that we come to a conclusion and attain an settlement earlier than Christmas,” says the incoming Surroundings Commissioner.
The voting numbers within the Parliament had been a report slim. Solely a margin of 88 votes for Ursula von der Leyen’s new meeting is lower than some other EU Fee has beforehand been supported with.
On the Swedish yes-side in Wednesday’s vote had been the Moderates, Christian Democrats, Centre Occasion, Liberals, and Social Democrats. The Inexperienced Occasion abstained.
On the no-side had been the Left Occasion and the Sweden Democrats.
“It’s the most right-wing fee we now have ever seen,” says Jonas Sjöstedt (V).
(November 27)
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