Von der Leyen names new European Commission with focus on climate change, security, competitiveness

Record ID: 1842190

  • Title: Von der Leyen names new European Commission with focus on climate change, security, competitiveness
  • Date: 17th September 2024
  • Summary: ROME, ITALY (FILE - MARCH 1, 2018) (REUTERS) ****WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER AND BROTHERS OF ITALY PARTY LEADER GIORGIA MELONI, FORZA ITALIA (GO ITALY!) LEADER SILVIO BERLUSCONI, NORTHERN LEAGUE LEADER MATTEO SALVINI AND THEN 'WE WITH ITALY' PARTY MEMBER AND NOW PROPOSED EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR EU COHESION AND REFORMS, RAFFAELE FITTO POLITICAL MEETING ONGOING MELONI, BERLUSCONI, SALVINI AND FITTO POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2024 11:21
  • Keywords: European Commission
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • Country: Belgium
  • Topics: European Union,Europe,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA004463817092024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday (September 17) named her team, which will lead the EU's most powerful institution for the next five years, tailoring it to focus on challenges posed by climate change, the war in Ukraine and the rise of China.
    Lithuania's Andrius Kubilius will be the European Union's first defense commissioner, with the new role designed to build up European military manufacturing capacity in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine, on the bloc's eastern flank.
    Spain's Energy and Environment Minister Teresa Ribera will be the bloc's next antitrust commissioner, also in charge of a "clean, just and competitive transition."
    Climate change "is the major backdrop of all what we are doing," von der Leyen said.
    But, compared to her first five-year term, "the topic of security, triggered by the Russian war in Ukraine, but also the topic of competitiveness, have ... much more impact on the composition and the design" of her new team, she said.
    (Production: Bart Biesemans)
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