Brussels/Madrid – The president of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, has requested this Tuesday the chief vice-presidency for Clear, Honest and Aggressive Transition, in addition to the Competitors portfolio for the third vice-president of the Spanish Authorities and Minister for Ecological Transition, the socialist Teresa Ribera.
The German chief revealed this Tuesday on the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) the record of members and obligations of her new School of Commissioners, who should be confirmed, one after the other, by the European Parliament after which collectively in a plenary session.
“Additionally because the individual accountable for Competitors, she’s going to lead the work to steer Europe in the direction of the targets of the Inexperienced Deal and decarbonize and industrialize the economic system on the similar time,” defined the president of the Fee in a press convention.
Within the space of Competitors, Ribera‘s job will likely be to supervise the large tech corporations and be certain that the brand new European guidelines on digital companies and markets are utilized, whereas within the discipline of ecological and social transition her foremost problem will likely be to reconcile the local weather ambitions of the European Inexperienced Cope with the calls for of the agricultural and livestock sector.
Ribera is about to be the sturdy piece of the European socialists in a right-leaning Fee after Von der Leyen granted her one of the vital influential positions within the EU government.
In statements to the media in Strasbourg after listening to the information, Ribera celebrated that Von der Leyen had entrusted her with the Government Vice-Presidency for Clear, Honest and Aggressive Transition, in addition to the Competitors portfolio, a accountability she takes on “very fortunately” and as an “honor” she accepts in a “humble and dedicated” method.
The present Spanish authorities minister highlighted that the German conservative’s proposal “nicely displays the good challenges” that the EU has forward and expressed confidence that from the portfolio assigned to her she’s going to be capable of “contribute very considerably to European competitiveness, occupied with individuals and environmental limits, working along with the remainder of the members of the School.”
“It’s a nice alternative to proceed constructing the European dream,” mentioned Ribera, who expressed herself “very grateful for this invitation to tackle this accountability that addresses the financial and industrial challenges of the European enterprise neighborhood, whereas additionally contemplating the significance of putting individuals on the middle of this transformation.”
She additionally highlighted the “glorious” work of her predecessor as Competitors Commissioner, the liberal Dane Margrethe Vestager, from whom she confessed she has “lots to study”. “We’re in touch and we recognize one another mutually,” she admitted.
In the meantime, the president of the Spanish Authorities, Pedro Sánchez, congratulated Ribera by way of the social community X and emphasised that together with her appointment “Spain achieves the best degree of affect it has ever had in Brussels”.
The pinnacle of the Spanish Authorities careworn that the “willpower and management” of Ribera within the Spanish Authorities have grow to be “an instance for everybody” and indicated that she will be able to now “defend those self same values from the center of Europe.”
“Together with your appointment, Spain achieves the best degree of affect it has ever had in Brussels, and the EU positive aspects an distinctive chief. We are going to miss you very a lot,” he mentioned. (September 17)
