The European Council has appointed a new composition of the European Commission - the second under President Ursula von der Leyen, according to the website of the European Institute, writes UNN.
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"The European Council today, according to a written procedure, appointed the European Commission for the period from December 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029. The president of the European Commission will be Ursula von der Leyen (Germany), and the Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and security policy will be Kaya Kallas (Estonia)," the European Council said.
Other members of the European Commission, as noted, will be:
• Magnus BRUNNER (Austria)
• Hadja LAHBIB (Belgium)
• Ekaterina SPASOVA GECHEVA-ZAHARIEVA (Bulgaria)
• Dubravka ŠUICA (Croatia)
• Constantinos KADIS (Cyprus)
• Jozef SÍKELA (Czechia)
• Dan JØRGENSEN (Denmark)
• Henna Maria VIRKKUNEN (Finland)
• Stéphane SÉJOURNÉ (France)
• Apostolos TZITZIKOSTAS (Greece)
• Olivér VÁRHELYI (Hungary)
• Michael MCGRATH (Ireland)
• Raffaele FITTO (Italy)
• Valdis DOMBROVSKIS (Latvia)
• Andrius KUBILIUS (Lithuania)
• Christophe HANSEN (Luxembourg)
• Glenn MICALLEF (Malta)
• Wopke Bastiaan HOEKSTRA (Netherlands)
• Piotr Arkadiusz SERAFIN (Poland)
• Maria Luís CASANOVA MORGADO DIAS DE ALBUQUERQUE (Portugal)
• Roxana MÎNZATU (Romania)
• Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ (Slovakia)
• Marta KOS (Slovenia)
• Teresa RIBERA RODRÍGUEZ (Spain)
• Jessika ROSWALL (Sweden)
"This happened after the consent provided by the European Parliament on November 27, 2024," the European institution said.