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Brussels – AGERPRES particular correspondent, Tudor Martalogu, studies: The European Parliament organized this week the hearings of 20 designated European commissioners, throughout which period the Members of the European Parliament examined to what extent the long run members of the Faculty of Commissioners possess the mandatory competences to make sure the portfolios entrusted by the president of the long run European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen.
The vast majority of the commissioners heard beginning Monday didn’t face notable difficulties in the course of the affirmation hearings.
Nonetheless, the designated European commissioner from Hungary, Oliver Varhelyi, who was entrusted with the portfolio of public well being and animal welfare, has not but obtained the approval of the MEPs on the finish of the listening to held on Wednesday night, as he might want to reply extra questions in writing.
For greater than three hours, Varhelyi’s listening to, an in depth affiliate of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, was primarily marked by questions from heart and left-wing MEPs regarding the correct to abortion and reproductive well being.
Oliver Varhelyi assured that he defends girls’s rights, nevertheless, careworn a number of instances that abortion just isn’t an ”EU competence”, however is on the discretion of member states.
In response to an announcement made Thursday morning by the EP spokesperson, Delphine Colard, the coordinators of the teams within the setting and agriculture committees of the European Parliament determined to deal with extra inquiries to Oliver Varhelyi, which is a part of the listening to process of the designated European commissioners.
After receiving the questions, the designated European commissioner for well being and animal welfare has 24 hours to reply. On Monday, November 11, the setting (ENVI) and agriculture and rural growth (AGRI) committees of the European Parliament will meet once more to evaluate the responses.
In response to the schedule introduced by the EP, the hearings of the designated commissioners will finish on November 12, a day on which the six govt vice-presidents of the long run Fee, together with Romanian Roxana Mînzatu, who will cope with the portfolio ‘Individuals, abilities, and coaching’, should reply questions.
After all of the hearings are accomplished, the Convention of Committee Chairs will assess the outcomes and ship the conclusions to the Convention of Presidents (consisting of EP President Roberta Metsola and political group leaders). The Convention of Presidents will analyze the analysis letters acquired from the competent committees and the suggestions of the Convention of Committee Chairs. It would then make a remaining evaluation, and on November 21, will declare the hearings closed. Analysis letters shall be revealed after the Convention of Presidents declares all hearings closed.(8.11.2024)
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