Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark and the Netherlands are the sole countries which have not taken their decision them on who they will send to the European Commission. In Belgium, negotiations for the new government
are slowing down the designation of the Commissioner. The home country of the Commission and Denmark should send a woman to Berlaymont. Three women are already nominated, and Slovenia may also send a woman (the country’s leaving government has actually sent a list of candidates, asking Jean-Claude Juncker to make his choice), but that will make up however for a total of only 6 women (perhaps a maximum of 8).
Mr. Juncker actually asked member States to propose the name of women, but few designations followed. Parity still seems to be a far away dream, unfortunately for the European democracy. 8 women out of 28 Commissioners is an untolerably low level of representation. MEPs have actually threatened to refuse to vote for the Commission if it does not include « #TenOrMore » women.
24 countries have already presented a candidate.
In Bulgaria, the executive power has just confirmed Kristalina Georgieva will do another mandate at the Commission. Radoslaw Sikorski (Poland) and Federica Mogherini (Italy) have both been confirmed by their government earlier, so there are still intense speculations on who will be the next High Representative of the EU. Sikorski is said to be more experimented but it is also known for being a friend of the USA, as a lot of persons in Poland. Mogherini has been criticized for being « too soft » on Russia regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. That’s why the Baltic countries and Poland have caused the failure of the 16th of July summit in Brussels, which should have confirmed the name of the High Representative. Donald Tusk, the Polish PM, says that the opposition Law and Justice party still thinks Sikorski is himself too soft on Russia. Mr. Juncker is said to hope for an agreement before the next meeting on August 30, according to EurActiv.
For the EPP, have been confirmed :
Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg)
Carlos Moedas (Portugal),
Miguel Arias Cañete (Spain)
Phil Hogan (Ireland)
Günther Oettinger (Germany)
Johannes Hahn (Austria)
Radoslaw Sikorski (Poland)
Tibor Navracsics (Hungaria)
Dimitris Avramopoulos (Greece)
Jyrki Katainen (Finland)
Valdis Dombrovskis (Latvia)
Dacian Ciolos (Romania)
Kristalina Georgieva (Bulgaria)
For the S&D :
Pierre Moscovici (France),
Federica Mogherini (Italy),
Neven Mimica (Croatia)
Maros Sefcovic (Slovakia)
Vytenis Andriukaitis (Lithuania)
Karmenu Vella (Malta)
For the ALDE :
Vera Jourova (Czech Republic)
Cecilia Malmström (Sweden)
Andrus Ansip (Estonia)
For the ECR, Jonathan Hill has been confirmed by the UK
In Slovenia, the names of the candidates are Alenka Bratusek (ALDE), Karl Erjavec (ALDE) and Tanja Fajon (S&D).
