Time is running out to unravel the negotiations for the start of the new European Commission on December 1. The political tensions staged last week in the appearance in the European Parliament of the third vice president of the Government, Teresa Ribera, seem to be beginning to get back on track. and it begins to forge a way to find an agreement, in writing, that gives the green light to the entry of the current Minister for the Ecological Transition into the Community Executive. Although, for now, the meetings end unfinished and with a view to continuing this Wednesday.
The exchange is what will make a way out of the situation possible. The German Christian Democrats, a party in which the head of the community Executive herself, Ursula von der Leyen, is a member, could lift their veto in exchange for the socialists opening hands with the candidate of the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. Raffaele Fitto would emerge as executive vice president of Reforms and Cohesion in exchange for confirm Ribera’s vice presidency.
Negotiations between political parties are now moving towards a written document that legitimizes the talks. Popular European sources have shown their willingness to give the green light to Ribera. The socialists, for their part, conceive this written agreement as a commitment of pro-European forces, between popular, socialists and Renew for the next legislature, not so much as an exchange of approvals for candidates. In any case The conversations continue.
The package of candidates for community vice presidents saw, last Tuesday, its vote postponed until this week. And if the popular ones demanded as a condition that Ribera appear before the Congress of Deputies to give explanations for Dana’s management and made their support subject to the commitment that resign if she were charged for that same reason, The socialists used the support of the Italian Fratelli d’Italia as a bargaining chip.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, removed the threat of vetoing both the Italian candidate and the candidate of the authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister. “All member countries of the European Union have the right to have a commissioner, That is so and we must respect it,” he said at the end of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). “It is what the treaties say, and that is what the European social democratic family does,” he indicated, ruling out the possibility that the socialists will try to veto the proposed candidate Meloni if the PP insists on unseating Ribera.
There are 19 members of Von der Leyen’s future European Commission team who have already had the approval of the European Parliament. Time is pressing to find a common point that will unlock the vice presidencies. The prospect is that on November 27, the plenary session of the European Parliament will approve the next College of Commissioners and that the new community Executive starts operating on December 1st. The The meeting of the Conference of Presidents that will take place tomorrow in the European Parliament should unblock the issue.
At this meeting, it is expected that the six community vice presidents, including Ribera and Fitto, will receive the approval. Also the Hungarian candidate, Olivér Várhelyi, whose aspiration to be Commissioner for Animal Health and Safety, did not pass the first examination of the European Parliament.
The context is the examination of the Spanish in the European Parliament, which became a hotbed of reproaches in a national key that the popular ones brandished towards the third vice president, for her responsibility in the management of Dana. But the wear and tear has also reached Brussels who see
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