New Parliament: Decaro and Tridico in pole position for Environment and Taxation committees
The election of the heads of the parliamentary committees of the new European Parliament sees two Italians favourites for the chairmanships of the Environment and Taxation Committees
from our correspondent Beda Romano
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BRUSSELS - The completion of the new European Parliament will end tomorrow, Tuesday 23 July. After the election of last week of a president, 14 vice-presidents and five quaestors, the parliamentary committees will meet to elect their heads. At least two Italians are favourites: Antonio Decaro (PD), who could get the head of the Environment Committee, and Pasquale Tridico (M5S), who could become chairman of the subcommittee on taxation.
The distribution
.According to initial information gathered here in Brussels, eight commissions should go to the Populars, five to the Socialists, three each to the Liberals, Greens and Conservatives, and finally two to the radical left. In all, there are 24 committees, including four subcommittees. The parties on the far right of the hemicycle, i.e. the patriots and sovereignists, should remain isolated behind a so-called cordon sanitaire, and thus not get any committee chairmanships.
Decaro favoured for Environment
As mentioned, there are two Italian MEPs favoured to chair committees in the next legislature. Antonio Decaro, 54 years old, former mayor of Bari, in socialist quota, could get the Environment Committee, composed of 90 MPs. Among other things, the parliamentary body will be called upon to negotiate with the Council on the European Commission's proposal to reduce harmful emissions by 90 per cent by 2040. The goal was confirmed last Thursday by President Ursula von der Leyen.
"It would be an honour for me to take on the role of chairman of the Environment Committee, but it would also be a great responsibility, because I know that on the committee's agenda there are decisive choices for Europe and for the rest of the world,' the MEP explains. For my part, there would be every commitment to tackling the issues on the agenda in the knowledge that Europe in the coming years will have to face a socially sustainable transition process.
Tridico in pole for the IRS
The other Italian in the front line for a committee chairmanship is Pasquale Tridico, 48, former president of INPS, representing the radical Left. He could lead the Taxation subcommittee (30 members). The issue is important at a time when attempts are being made to harmonise the tax burden in some way at European level, even though the subject is governed by the requirement of unanimity among member states and tends to be a national competence.
