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fullscreen Sweden’s incoming EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall is interviewed in Strasbourg. Archive image. Photo: Wiktor Nummelin/TT
The EU Parliament’s hearings of the nominees for the next EU Commission will be held on 4–12 November.
“With a mandate from European citizens, MEPs will ask, assess, scrutinize and vote. This is European democracy,” writes Speaker Roberta Metsola after the parliament’s group leaders agreed on the timetable on Wednesday afternoon.
The fact that Swedish Jessika Roswall and the other commissioners are questioned so late means that the next commission can take office from 1 December at the earliest. The exact order of the hearings has not yet been published. Roswall is proposed to be given responsibility for the environment and water resilience.