
Timetable for Commissioner Candidates’ Parliamentary Hearings Revealed
The five executive vice presidents and the foreign affairs chief will be questioned by MEPs last, after every other commissioner candidate has been approved or rejected.

The five executive vice presidents and the foreign affairs chief will be questioned by MEPs last, after every other commissioner candidate has been approved or rejected.

As expected, the Patriots–the Parliament’s third largest party group—was completely passed over.

Von der Leyen is set to create a fourth executive VP post just for Italy—to avoid offending her coalition allies by giving away one of their jobs to the ECR.

The veteran EU politician, known as a pragmatic technocrat, could be Rome’s best chance to secure the budget portfolio in the next EU Commission.