New EU Commission, all names. Fitto Vice-President and Commissioner for Cohesion
There are six executive vice-presidencies proposed by Ursula von der Leyen for the new Commission. The six top roles go to 4 women and 2 men: Spain's Teresa Ribera (Green Deal), Finland's Henna Virkkunen, France's Stéphane Séjourné (Industry), Estonia's Kaja Kallas, Romania's Roxana Minzatu and Italy's Raffale Fitto, who is executive vice-president in charge of Cohesion and Reforms
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"The new college of the Commission is based on our political guidelines. These have been intensive weeks of negotiations with the member states. The first step from the guidelines is to define our priorities, which are prosperity security and democracy, against the background of competitiveness and the green and digital transitions. As the Draghi report says, we need more coordination between policies'. This was said Ursula von der Leyen when presenting the new Commission.
There are six executive vice-presidencies proposed by Ursula von der Leyen for the new Commission. The six top roles will be held by the Spanish Teresa Ribera, the Finnish Henna Virkkunen, the French Stéphane Séjourné, the Estonian Kaja Kallas , the Romanian Roxana Minzatu and the Italian Raffale Fitto. The Italian politician will hold the portfolios for reforms and cohesion policies. "The appointment given to Raffaele Fitto reflects the importance of a founding country like Italy but I also looked at the composition of the European Parliament, where Ecr has two vice-presidents," explained the European Commission president after the meeting with the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament. During the parliamentary hearings of the EU Commissioners - parliamentary sources of the Liberal group anticipated to the press - the MEPs of the Renew Europe group are preparing to question Raffaele Fitto "on tax reform, the issue of bathers and the Italian delay to the green transition".
Spain's Ribera will be responsible for the 'just', 'clean' and 'competitive' transition; France's Séjourné will be in charge of industrial policy; Finland's Virkkunen will be in charge of digitalisation; Romania's Roxana Minzatu of skills (improving competitiveness and productivity, education). Kallas will be the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission.
In addition to Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera, who will lead the entire EU Green Deal, there will be two 'green' delegations in the next European Commission: the Dutch Wopke Hoekstra will be the new Commissioner for Climate and the Swedish Jessika Roswall will be responsible for Environment and Water Resilience. Also related to the EU environmental agenda are the delegation for Fisheries and Oceans to Cypriot Costas Kadis, the portfolio for Health and Animal Welfare to Hungarian Oliver Varhelyi, Energy to Danish Dan Jorgensen, and Agriculture to Luxembourger Christophe Hansen.
The supervision of the EU economy and public accounts for the next five years will be entrusted to Latvia and Slovakia. In Ursula von der Leyen's new team, the veteran Valdis Dombrovskis, although deprived of the executive vice-presidency, will continue to hold the delegation for Economy and Productivity. At his side will be Slovakian Maros Sefcovic, holder of Trade and Economic Security. The head of the EU budget will then be the Polish Piotr Serafin. The Portuguese Maria Luís Albuquerque was instead given the delegation for Financial Services. Also included in the package of economic delegations is Raffaele Fitto, who heads the maxi-portfolio of EU cohesion funds and reforms..
