The European Parliament postpones the decisions on the Kalas and Fito candidacies

The European Parliament has announced that it is postponing the vote on the approval of the two vice-president candidates of the new Commission: Estonia’s Kaya Kalas for the post of EU High Representative and Italy’s Raffaele Fito, who is slated to take over its portfolio cohesion policy. The coordinators of the Home Affairs Committee and the Committee of the Regions have decided to postpone the evaluation of Kaya Kalas and Raffaele Fito, respectively, the representative of the European Parliament, Delphine Collar, said in a statement, without specifies a specific date. Today the hearings of the remaining four vice-presidential candidates are taking place in the European Parliament: the French Stephane Cezournet (Prosperity and industrial strategy), the Spanish Teresa Ribeira (Clean, fair and competitive transition), the Finnish Henna Virkunen (Technology, Security and Democracy) and Romania’s Rohana Minzatou (People, Skills and Readiness). As for the Italian vice-presidential candidate, Raffaele Fito, who is set to take over the strategic portfolio of EU Cohesion policy, at his hearing this morning he faced the […]
Source: News Beast

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