(Finance) – Between twists and turns and failures, the new European Commission by Ursula Bis it could see the light todaywith the presentation of the definitive list of the team’s names. According to European sources, the green light from the majority groups in the Eurochamber arrived yesterday evening and, this morning, President von der Leyen is ready to present her formal list to the Conference of Group Presidents.
There was no shortage of last minute twistslike that of the sudden resignation of the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Thierry Bretonwho left the European Commission after learning that the President herself had asked France to replace him in exchange for a more powerful role in the new Commission. “Over the past five years, I have worked tirelessly to support and promote the European common good, above national and party interests,” Breton wrote in a letter published in X, explaining that “in the final phase of negotiations on the composition of the future College, you asked France to withdraw my name for personal reasons,” in exchange for “a supposedly more influential portfolio for France in the future College.”
According to reports in the last few hours, Breton will be replaced by Stephane Sejournéwhich will be entrusted a weighty post in Brussels. There is talk of the appointment of Executive Vice President with delegation to industrial sovereignty and competitivenesseven if we are talking about including the highly sought-after Economy portfolio.
The other major obstacle that the Ursula Commission had to overcome, after the rejections of Meloni in the Council and FdI in the July plenary session, is the Raffaele Fitto appointed as Executive Vice Presidentimmediately opposed by socialists and greens. But this game was also won by von der Leyen, who will assign Fitto a position similar to that of the other vice-presidents, the French Séjourné, the Spanish Teresa Ribera, the Latvian Valdis Dombrovskis, the Slovak Maros Sefcovic and the Estonian Kaja Kallas.
The new Italian Commissioner has been conceived Delegation to Cohesion and the PNRRwith the not easy task, but for Gentiloni “not impossible”, of extend the deadline of the PNRR from the current 2026.
For the other strong roles, we are talking about Czech Joseph Sikelawhich would have conquered the Tradewhile the Dutch Woepke Hoekstra it would be indicated for the economy. The delegation to the Justice It would be reserved for the Swedish Jessika Roswall, Agriculture in Luxembourgish Christophe Hansesi Transport in Greek Apostle Tzitzikostas. The dossier on the Migration could be assigned to the Belgian Hadja Lahbib and the Digital Finnish style Henna Virkkunen.
Aside from the strong roles, necessarily negotiated and sometimes unwelcome, the Ursula Commission should faithfully reflect the President’s vision and – it is said – operate “waiting for her approval”.