{"id":136127,"date":"2019-10-29T15:50:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/von-der-leyen-nominates-french-and-hungarian-commissioners\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:50:23","slug":"von-der-leyen-nominates-french-and-hungarian-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/von-der-leyen-nominates-french-and-hungarian-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen nominates French and Hungarian commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula von der Leyen has formally nominated Frances Thierry Breton and Hungarys Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi as members of the next European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen, the Commission president-elect, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-waits-on-romania-romanian-election-bucharest-european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen-viorica-dancila\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stepped up pressure<\/a> on Romania to put forward a new nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Paris, Budapest and Bucharest were all required to present new nominees after the European Parliament rejected their first-choice candidates, thereby delaying the start of von der Leyens Commission, which had been due to take office on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews with the new French and Hungarian candidates took place Monday evening and a letter was sent to the Council of the EU officially nominating them, a spokesman from the Commissions transition team said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Both nominees will now face the European Parliaments confirmation process, which includes an examination of their financial affairs by the Legal Affairs Committee and at least one confirmation hearing from a specialist committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/4-things-to-know-thierry-breton\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breton<\/a>, who was Frances minister of the economy, finance and industry from 2005 to 2007 under Jacques Chirac, is a largely unknown figure in Brussels. His nomination to a beefed-up internal market portfolio prompted questions of conflicts of interest as he currently serves as CEO of technology company Atos, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/flash-eco\/thierry-breton-cedera-ses-actions-s-il-devient-commissaire-europeen-20191028?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&amp;utm_campaign=0ab7fbf376-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_29_05_55&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_10959edeb5-0ab7fbf376-189773345\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he owns shares<\/a> worth about \u20ac34 million.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said Breton \u201chas made far-reaching offers to avoid possible conflicts of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1rhelyi is Hungarys current ambassador to the EU. Diplomats as well as current and former Hungarian officials described V\u00e1rhelyi, a career diplomat and former Commission official, as highly intelligent and extremely knowledgeable on EU issues. But multiple former Hungarian officials also describe an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-orban-european-commission-oliver-varhelyi-criticism-management-style-verbal-abuse\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">abrasive leadership style<\/a> that has included screaming, yelling and swearing at staffers. V\u00e1rhelyi has declined to comment on those allegations.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1rhelyi is expected to be earmarked to take responsibility for EU enlarge<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/thierry-breton-oliver-varhelyi-ursula-von-der-leyen-nominates-french-and-hungarian-commissioners\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula von der Leyen has formally nominated Frances Thierry ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Von der Leyen nominates French and Hungarian commissioners - 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