The evening, in Brussels, didn’t carry recommendation. And ultimately the forecasts have been revered to the letter, the 27 selected a kind of “reshuffle”, giving life to a “photocopy” fee. Ranging from the top, with the affirmation of the German president Ursula von der Leyen, however there’ll most likely even be as commissioners the Latvian Valdis Dombrovskis, the French Thierry Breton, the Luxembourger Nicolas Schmit and the Slovak Maroš Šefcovic. In apply the identical group as 5 years in the past, that’s, earlier than Covid, earlier than the wars on the doorstep with Europe, and earlier than the elections, which delivered two defeats to the majorities in Germany and particularly in France. As if nothing had occurred, Thursday’s summit authorized the “prime Jobs”: Ursula as president of the EU, the Estonian Kaja Kallas as Excessive Consultant, the Portuguese Antonio Costa (with the vote in favor of Viktor Orban who has a historic hyperlink with the socialist) to guide the European Council. All with a professional majority – strengthened – mandatory for the inexperienced mild across the Europa constructing desk. The try by the European Folks’s Occasion to persuade Giorgia Meloni to comply with the bulk was unsuccessful. The Prime Minister abstained on von der Leyen, voting in opposition to the Estonian and Portuguese.
She herself, after the summit, defined the Italian authorities’s place: «I contemplate it an enormous mistake, an absence of respect in direction of European residents and the vote expressed by them. I made a decision to take the residents’ recommendation by not supporting this proposal. We determined in accordance with the completely different evaluations.” That’s, the divisions of the bulk events. In actual fact, the vote on prime jobs clearly confirmed the three completely different positions that coexist within the government. From this viewpoint, the Prime Minister’s abstention is a gesture of consideration in direction of the EPP and the German lady in her second mandate within the EU. Much less diplomatic is Nicola Procaccini, co-president of the Conservative Group within the European Parliament: «The EU can’t proceed to be guided by the closed circle of the identical political forces, ignoring the residents’ vote which has moved the political axis additional to the appropriate and making fake that nothing has modified.”
Along with the nationwide controversies, there are two dates that can hold the European capitals in suspense. Polls open at present in France to resume the Nationwide Meeting, the second spherical is scheduled for July seventh. The projections give the Rassemblement Nationwide of Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen as the favourite with 36 % of the vote adopted by the alliance of the New Fashionable Entrance, made up of the Socialist Occasion, La France Insoumise, the Greens and the French Communist Occasion, between 27.5 and 29 %. President Macron’s get together is barely in third place with between 19.5 and 21 % of the vote. A vote that dangers inflicting a cataclysm in Brussels. Additionally as a result of it barely anticipates one other pronouncement, judged on the wire. That’s, that of the European Parliament, scheduled for 16 July for the affirmation of the favored Maltese Roberta Metsola as head of the meeting. And above all from 18 July, for the vote of confidence within the new president of the European Fee. And right here the difficulty begins, as a result of the bulk made up of fashionable individuals, socialists and liberals has restricted numbers. Calculating a pure proportion of 10-15% of snipers, the designated president would possibly want round fifty votes to remain calm. The result is something however apparent, particularly if the Lepenist Bardella has gained in France. A scenario that pushes the chief of the League, Matteo Salvini, to foretell that “this fee will likely be short-lived”. Now the countdown begins, lower than twenty days from a sequence of occasions that would change the face of Europe.
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2024-06-30 18:35:00