Strasbourg (France) – The European Parliament will maintain the listening to of the candidate for Government Vice-President of the European Fee for a Clear, Honest and Aggressive Transition, in addition to liable for Competitors, Teresa Ribera, on November 12 at 6:30 p.m., European Parliament political group leaders determined this Thursday.
The European Folks’s Occasion and the three ultra-conservative and far-right teams supported this feature, which locations all of the vice-president candidates on the finish of the sequence of hearings between November 4 and 12, versus the choice most popular by socialists, liberals, greens, and the left, which scheduled the vice-presidents’ hearings initially.
This resolution, through which the EPP has as soon as once more aligned with the far-right as an alternative of the bulk pro-European teams as was customary, didn’t go down nicely with the socialist ranks.
Their president, the Spanish Iratxe García, lamented the “political intention” of leaving the vice-presidents till the top of the method, as they’d be the final to obtain the inexperienced gentle.
“This may complicate the method. We can not perceive why the EPP performs to have a double majority, generally with us and generally with the far-right,” she famous.
The chief of the European Conservatives and Reformists, the Italian Nicola Procaccini, defended the chosen order and pressured that it follows the identical logic because the final legislature. The Italian Authorities’s candidate Giorgia Meloni, Raffaelle Fitto, would be the first of the vice-presidents to bear his listening to.
Every candidate wants a two-thirds majority among the many fee examiners to advance within the first or second vote. If any attain the third vote, in that case, solely a easy majority is required.
Ribera might be examined within the European Parliament by the MEPs of the Financial system, Atmosphere, and Trade committees, whereas 5 different committees (Employment, Transport, Agriculture, Regional Growth, and Inner Market) will attend her listening to as company.
Alongside the opposite 25 commissioner candidates, the Spaniard additionally obtained the inexperienced gentle this Thursday from the Authorized Affairs Committee, which examined her statements of pursuits looking for conflicts which may query her suitability for the function. (October 10)
