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After psychodramas, it’s time for the von der Leyen II Commission, with a far-right vice-president

Valérie de Graffenried

Bruxelles

Published on November 27, 2024 at 1:16 p.m. / Modified on November 27, 2024 at 1:23 p.m.

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  • After the European Parliament’s vote, the new Commission will take office on December 1.

  • All the commissioners designated by Ursula von der Leyen have passed the ramp.

  • But the negotiations were difficult, particularly regarding Raffaele Fitto, of Fratelli d’Italia.

  • The new Commission will work in the midst of political turbulence.

After a series of bloodshed, frenzied bargaining and psychodramas, the brand new European Commission can finally begin its work on December 1st. On Wednesday, the European Parliament in plenary session in formally validated, by 370 against 282 and 36 abstentions, the entire Commission made up of 26 commissioners including six vice-presidents – the Estonian Kaja Kallas, the Italian Raffaele Fitto, the Romanian Roxana Mînzatu, the Frenchman Stéphane Séjourné, the Spanish Teresa Ribera and the Finnish Henna Virkkunen -, as well as President Ursula von der Leyen.

An agreement between the center-right European People’s Party (EPP), the Socialists & Democrats (S & D, center left) and the liberal group Renew Europe, sealed in pain, made it possible to remove the last obstacles on November 20. This is the first time since 1999 that no nomination has been invalidated. In 2019, three designated commissioners were dismissed.

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