Strasbourg/Stockholm – Sweden’s Jessika Roswall is proposed to take accountability for environmental points within the subsequent EU Fee. Water and a ‘aggressive round financial system’ are additionally a part of the job description.
“Jessika will change into the Commissioner for the Atmosphere. She could have an essential job. It’s a excessive precedence for the work we’ve got forward of us,” mentioned President Ursula von der Leyen at a press convention in Strasbourg.
“Thanks Ursula! I look ahead to intensive work forward,” Roswall commented herself on X.
Beforehand she has been the EU minister in Sweden’s right-wing authorities. That she is proposed to handle environmental points is a shock.
Hypothesis prematurely has talked about all the things from accountability for the inner market or protection to enlargement or commerce.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson thinks it’s gratifying.
“In her space of accountability lies the accountability for the essential forestry points, that are essential for Sweden’s development and local weather transition,” he says.
Based on Kristersson, higher competitiveness is a crucial situation for the EU, in order that the union doesn’t fall behind China and the USA.
“For the primary time, the competitiveness perspective is included within the environmental portfolio. In Sweden, we merged enterprise coverage and local weather coverage once we took workplace. The Fee is now following the identical path – linking enterprise and inexperienced transition.”
(September 17)
