Climate get priority in the new EU Commission on Wednesday are approved, evaluate Marlene Wind.
Now, the coming EUROPEAN commissioners will soon take office, after the new EU Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen at the head on Wednesday has been approved by the European Parliament.
1. december begins the work, and the climate becomes the first priority for the new commission. It assesses Marlene Wind, professor at the Centre for European Politics at Copenhagen University.
– It, Ursula von der Leyen said in his speech today, was exactly that here klimaområde and digitisation. Climate change is something which the commission and the whole EU system is going to have to take very seriously.
– So it is very centrally located, she will go in war with it. The climate gets priority over so many other things, says Marlene Wind.
Von der Leyen, to use a simple majority vote in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg.
She’s got a very robust mandate. 461 of the EU Parliament members voted in favour of the EU Commission, while 157 voted against. 89 voted either for or against.
Vegabet Margrethe Vestager, who will become senior vice-president of the new commission, believes that it is a “strong indication” that a large part of the european parliament has voted in favour of the commission.
And it is also not without significance, think Marlene Wind.
– That it has now been approved with an overwhelming majority, of course, provides the opportunity that they can go ahead with the ambitious goals, Ursula von der Leyen has put forth, says Marlene Wind.
She points, among other things, that Ursula von der Leyen has been good to listen to criticism of his plans for the EU, which has paid off in the form of many yes-votes.
In the industry organisation Dansk Erhverv am the special care of the fact that there is a “strong focus on the green” with the new commission.
According to Lasse Hamilton Heidemann, the UNION commander in the organization, it is an area that is “absolutely essential” for Danish companies in the coming years.
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