Deal on EC appointments inc Fitto, Ribera reached

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 20 - An agreement on the new appointments to the European Commission including Italy's Raffaele Fitto and Spain's Teresa Ribera, who had been the subject of countervailing vetoes, has now been reached and will be announced Wednesday evening, Eu sources said.
    Fitto, a member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and hitherto Italy's minister for European affairs, the South, cohesion and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), is to become an executive vice president with the brief for cohesion and the NRRPs.
    He had been vetoed by the Socialists and Democrats because Meloni's rightwing Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group did not vote to confirm Ursula von der Leyen as EC chief or for the NextGenEU programme.
    Ribera, Spanish deputy premier with the ecological transition brief, had been vetoed by the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) for her alleged responsibility in the Valencia floods that killed over 220 people.
    All six commissioner-designates will now be assessed in hearings starting at seven o'clock Wednesday night, the sources said.
    Von der Leyen's new commission will thus be enabled to start work. (ANSA).