{"id":135656,"date":"2024-11-26T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/green-meps-divided-over-backing-for-european-commission\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:20:24","slug":"green-meps-divided-over-backing-for-european-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/green-meps-divided-over-backing-for-european-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Green MEPs divided over backing for European Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135656\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The group split on the vote for final approval following decision-making meeting in Strasbourg. Co-chair Bas Eckhout says new executive is &#8216;good on content&#8217;, but several colleagues set to vote against. The Green\/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament is split over whether to support the next European Commission, it emerged following a meeting in Strasbourg today.<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament will vote at midday on Wednesday to approve the coming EU executive having approved all 26 commissioners with a backroom deal among centrist groups. An absolute majority of the votes cast is required to secure the green light, and abstentions do not count as votes against. The Greens voted for the approval of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last July, welcoming her commitments to develop a climate-neutral industrial policy and boost just transition funding.<\/p>\n<p>But support for von der Leyen&#8217;s new commission has now thinned out within the group. \u201cWe took a vote, and the outcome was that a small majority of the Green group is going to support the European Commission,\u201d said Greens\/EFA Dutch co-chair Bas Eickhout after a meeting on Monday evening in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. \u201cWe had a very long discussion, and I think what was very clear is that we all share arguments in favour or against very clearly. On our analysis and our assessment, we have the same conclusions: [the EC is] good on content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Greens appreciated the political guidelines put forward by Ursula von der Leyen and her recent statements in support of cooperation. \u201cFor me, the Greens\/EFA group is part of the pro-European majority in the European Parliament, like the platform that I want to continue working with,\u201d von der Leyen said in a press note released the same day. However, pro-environment MEPs also expressed concerns about the composition of the new Commission, which includes Hungary\u2019s Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi as commissioner for health and animal welfare and Italy\u2019s Raffaele Fitto as executive vice president for cohesion and reforms. The Greens voted against both picks in their hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Eickhout said the choice of Fitto as an executive vice president &#8220;is a big problem for us\u201d, citing his membership of a radical right-wing party. This could be read as a clear shift rightwards for the Commission, he said, in view of the fact that the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group will vote in favour of the new college.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/11\/25\/green-meps-divided-over-backing-for-european-commission\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/11\/25\/green-meps-divided-over-backing-for-european-commission\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/green-meps-divided-over-backing-for-european-commission\/\">Green MEPs divided over backing for European Commission<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2331,17078,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-135656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-european-commission","tag-green-meps","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}