Nominees for new EU Commission make economic interventionism seem more likely
The slate follows a major report that proposes higher European Union spending
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AFTER June’s European Parliament elections, the process of forming the next European Commission – the executive body of the European Union – moved at a glacial pace. On Tuesday (Sep 17), President Ursula von der Leyen finally proposed her top team in Brussels for the half-decade ahead – with big implications, including for economic policy.
She has tried to balance factors such as gender, political leanings, and geography – one commissioner per member state – while putting her stamp on the team more markedly than on her first commission in 2019.
This includes the ruthless removal of Frenchman Thierry Breton, a key architect of the EU’s new Artificial Intelligence Act, who was perhaps her strongest critic in the outgoing college of commissioners.
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