BRUSSELS Nov. 8 () –
The candidate for the executive vice-presidency of the Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition, and for the Competition portfolio of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, will face the European Parliament examination next Tuesday, the date chosen for the hearings of all future vice-presidents of the Executive community.
To assume the position entrusted to him by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, Ribera must first answer the questions from the Economic and Monetary Affairs commissions; Environment; Public Health and Food Safety and Industry, Research and Energy, responsible for evaluating the candidate.
In addition, you must answer a question from five other invited committees: Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Employment and Social Affairs; Transportation and Tourism; Regional Development and Agriculture.
That same Tuesday, the European Parliament will also evaluate the Estonian Kaja Kallas as High Representative for EU Foreign Policy; the Italian far-right candidate, Raffaele Fitto, who will manage cohesion policies; to the Finnish Henna Virkkunen for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy; the Romanian Roxana Mînzatu for employment, social affairs and education issues; and the Frenchman Stéphane Séjourné for Industrial Strategy and Prosperity.
The hearings of the commissioners appointed by Von der Leyen began on November 4, an exam that, to date, all the candidates have passed with the sole exception of the commissioner proposed by Hungary, Oliver Varhelyi, who is running for the Health portfolio. and Animal Welfare.
Varhelyi, who served as Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement in the previous legislature, must respond to a written questionnaire from MEPs, who have criticized his lack of perspective on matters such as public health or reproductive rights after he stated that abortion It wasn’t a medical issue.
Once all the candidates have been examined, the entire College of Commissioners must also receive the approval of the European Parliament in a vote scheduled for the plenary session from 25 to 28 November in Strasbourg (France) with the aim of the new Commission entering in office on December 1.
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