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.
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