Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 22:40:22 GMT -6
This year it is time to renew the presidents of the European Commission and Council, the European Parliament and the ECB and each of these positions has quite a few suitors. The mandate of the top leaders of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, and the European Council, Donald Tusk, expires on June 30. For their part, the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, and that of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, must resign from their positions on October 31. 2019 is a year of change of power at the head of the European institutions. In the second half of the year it is time to renew the presidencies of the Commission and the European Council, the European Chamber and the ECB and the selection of new senior officials will test the alliances and geopolitical balances within the 28.
After the European Elections , community diplomacy has already been launched, especially regarding the most coveted position of all, that of the replacement of the Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission. In fact, this Friday negotiations begin in Brussels between the 3 parliamentary groups that have obtained the SW Business Directory most representation in the European Parliament. Pedro Sánchez will participate in the negotiations Thus, the socialist group will be represented in these negotiations by the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, and the Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Costa , while the liberal representatives will be prime ministers of Belgium, Charles Michel, and of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, and the first ministers of Latvia, Arturs Karins, and Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, as negotiators of the European People's Party.
Who will be the president of the European Commission after the elections on May 26 This 6-way negotiation will serve to prepare the European Summit on June 20 and 21, which will be dedicated to agreeing on the names of the substitutes for the presidents of the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. Although a delay in this process is not ruled out, the calendar offers little margin since the first session of the IX Legislature of the European Parliament will be held on July 3 . However, some community leaders have questioned the very process of electing the president of the Council through the heads of the list or spitzenkandidaten of each European parliamentary group. Specifically, French President Emmanuel Macron has criticized the election of these candidates by the European Parliament instead of the EU heads of state and government.
