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The resolution to present the center-right Austrian People’s Party’s Magnus Brunner the interior affairs and migration portfolio may very well be learn as Brussels’ tacit recognition of the size of the migration problem Europe has confronted, particularly within the wake of the so-called migration disaster.
Ireland
There had been indicators Dublin is perhaps lumped with a tiny portfolio after Taoiseach Simon Harris was the primary chief to publicly defy von der Leyen’s demand for nations to ship each a female and male candidate. Coupled with the very fact members of the European Parliament from candidate Michael McGrath’s party brazenly campaigned towards von der Leyen constructed up a way of foreboding. But ultimately, McGrath acquired the portfolio for democracy, justice and the rule of regulation. Not too shabby, all issues thought of.
Losers
Glenn Micallef
The Maltese candidate’s lack of expertise as a minister and brief political profession led to a portfolio with little relevance on the European stage and even much less clout. The youngest commissioner, 35-year-old Micallef, acquired the intergenerational equity, youth, tradition and sport portfolio.
“Few areas are as near EU residents’ every day lives” as his portfolio, Micallef mentioned on X. “It is a real privilege.”
Thierry Breton
It’s potential that if the bombastic commissioner for the interior market had been nicer to von der Leyen, he might need been promoted to a strong govt vp publish right this moment.
However, in the course of the previous 5 years, the fiery Frenchman repeatedly clashed together with his boss. Earlier this yr, he brazenly pitched himself as her potential alternative. In current days, von der Leyen known as up French President Emmanuel Macron and promised him a greater portfolio if Breton was changed with anybody else.
