2024-05-26 15:57:36
The European Fee’s high posts will quickly all be up for grabs once more after subsequent month’s European elections.
Which nation will take the seat of the omnipotent commerce commissioner and oversee the EU’s impending commerce conflict with China? Will the Poles safe a brand new protection portfolio to tackle their arch-rivals the Russians? And who will take management of US tech giants like Apple and Google as Europe’s subsequent chief competitor?
Even throughout this time, forward of the June 6-9 elections, maneuvers and negotiations are happening for the highest positions.
Every of the EU’s 27 nations takes up a commissioner put up, however there’s a tooth-and-nail battle to find out who will get what. Commerce and competitors are probably the most influential portfolios.
Final time, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen requested every nation to appoint two candidates — one male and one feminine. If he returns for a second time period, we are able to count on the identical course of.
It is nonetheless early days, however POLITICO lists for every nation the names being mentioned in political and diplomatic circles.
Greece presently has a Commissioner, Margaritis Schinas, who’s Vice-President of the Fee for the Promotion of the European Manner of Life) and belongs to the European Folks’s Celebration. The names which have fallen on the desk are:
Niki Kerameos (Minister of the Inside) — European Folks’s Celebration.
Stavros Papastavrou (former Minister of State) — European Folks’s Celebration.
George Gerapetritis (Overseas Minister) — European Folks’s Celebration.
Fascinating portfolio for Greece is that of immigration and protection.
The possibilities are excessive that Mitsotakis will determine to maintain Schinas in Brussels for a second time period, particularly if von der Leyen additionally stays, POLITICO studies.