{"id":137747,"date":"2019-11-14T22:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/meps-approve-french-commissioner-designate-thierry-breton\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:40:15","slug":"meps-approve-french-commissioner-designate-thierry-breton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/meps-approve-french-commissioner-designate-thierry-breton\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs approve French Commissioner-designate Thierry Breton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key MEPs on Thursday confirmed Thierry Breton, Frances nominee for the internal market portfolio, following his hearing in the European Parliament, according to four Parliament officials.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinators of the center-right European Peoples Party, the Socialists &amp; Democrats, the European Conservatives and Reformists and the centrist Renew Europe from the Industry and Internal Market committees voted in favor of Breton, clearing his path to confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Approval for the French nominee comes a month after the Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/finger-pointing-and-charges-of-betrayal-follow-goulards-defeat-macron-goulard-von-der-leyen-merkel\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rejected Sylvie Goulard<\/a>, Frances first choice for the post, over legal and ethical concerns in a blow to French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Breton succeeded in alleviating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-european-commission-nominee-thierry-bretons-fate-in-the-hands-of-the-parliament-socialists\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">concerns<\/a> about potential conflicts of interest linked to his extensive background in the private sector, including at the helm of tech company Atos. Thierry Breton will be in charge of key digital policy as part of his portfolio spanning digital, industry, space and defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThierry Breton is fit to become the Commissioner for Internal Market,\u201d the Socialists and Democrats group said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheProgressives\/status\/1195010707760263168\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a> after the vote. \u201cBut we will monitor his commitments to avoid conflicts of interest during his mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Parliament officials, Greens didnt oppose Breton but they wanted further clarifications. The far-right ID group also requested additional questions.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted by MEPs from the Greens and far-left GUE\/NLG group on conflicts of interests, Breton showed a document in the form of \u201ca certificate\u201d to prove that he had sold his shares \u201con the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI no longer have any interests in the companies I have led. Zero,\u201d he added. He also promised that he would \u201cwalk out of the room\u201d if there was a case involving his former company, Atos, and committed to \u201cnever [receiving] a member of a company [he has] led alone in [his] office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Marie Toussaint, a French MEP from the Greens group who noted some concern about Bretons nomination creating a suspicious \u201cmix of genres,\u201d Breton, again, insisted that the European commission had rules \u201cmade precisely for people like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be radical in strictly applying that principle.\u201d \u201cEverything is transparent, this house, your house is a glass house,\u201d he said. \u201cWhatever I do is recorded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in Goulards hearing, MEPs from key political groups challenged Breton mainly on issues linked to his portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>His<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/meps-approve-french-commissioner-designate-thierry-breton\/?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>Key MEPs on Thursday confirmed Thierry Breton, Frances nominee for the internal market portfolio, fo..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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