{"id":7401,"date":"2022-01-27T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:30:12","slug":"renewal-and-experience-in-the-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=7401","title":{"rendered":"Renewal and Experience in the European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roberta Metsola, a Member of the European Parliament from the European People’s Party (EPP), has been elected the new President of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth noting that he was elected by a comfortable majority from the first round, with the help of the Socialists, who chose not to run for president in consultation with the EPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This facilitated Metsola’s comfortable dominance, and the EPP retaliated by supporting all five Socialist candidates for vice-president, limiting its own to three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election of Metsola – 42 years old, married to a Finn and with four children – marks the emergence of a new generation of politicians and the strengthening of the role of women in the European Parliament, and in European institutions in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, has been added to the role of President of the European Commission, von der Leyen, and President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The election of the foutreen vice presidents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the fourteen vice presidents there are also highly experienced executives. The case of the Austrian MEP of the EPP, Otmar Karas, is typical, who was elected vice-president first in crosses of preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimitris Papadimoulis set his own record. He managed to be elected for a 4th term vice-president – each term lasts 2.5 years – representing the European Left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had to fight hard to be re-elected, since the European Left now has extremely limited powers and had not reached an agreement with the political groups that control the majority of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, his personal contacts and the wider recognition for his European course measured. Let us recall that Papadimoulis opposed the “experiment” Tsipras – Varoufakis and contributed to Greece’s stay in the Eurozone. In the crucial third ballot, the leader of the EPP political group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, gave a line to the EPP MEPs for Papadimoulis to vote, sealing his re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he explained, despite the differences, he prefers a vice-president who commits the political group of the Left in a European direction, rather than an independent one with extreme right-wing tendencies and anti-European disposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weber’s decision was also a sign of political superiority, if we consider what the Greek Left was dragging him through when he was claiming the presidency of the European Commission and personally Dimitris Papadimoulis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement of the three major parties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the election of the new President and most of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament is the agreement between three political groups on the direction of the European Parliament’s legislative work over the next 30 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPP, the Socialists and their allies, and the Renew Europeans Liberals – to whom Macron is a major influence – have agreed on a ten-point action plan. Therefore, the vote of Metzola and most of the vice-presidents is the result of a binding agreement negotiated by the representatives of the three political groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The political “contract” includes ten key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> the dynamic protection of fundamental rights and the promotion of the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong> the protection of the environment and the pursuit of climate neutrality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.<\/strong> the continuation of the common fight against the pandemic and the promotion of the European Health Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> the promotion of the digital transition with an emphasis on innovation and the imposition of rules on the champions of the digital economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.<\/strong> the promotion of a new development strategy and the modernization of the financial framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.<\/strong> the creation of quality jobs, the prevention of occupational and social exclusion and the fight against inequalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.<\/strong> strengthening external borders and tackling hybrid threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.<\/strong> the development of a refugee and immigrant policy that is comprehensive, has a humanitarian dimension and is effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.<\/strong> the strengthening of the EU’s strategic autonomy, the promotion of multilateral cooperation and its emergence as a real power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.<\/strong> to strengthen the powers of the European Parliament and to make use of the Conference on the Future of Europe to set a new European course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goals set by the three political groups are extremely ambitious and specialized to a large extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Specifically for the economy, the agreement of the three political groups provides the following: “The EU. responded to the crisis with an unprecedented recovery plan, the Next Generation EU, which relies on large-scale investment, smart governance and new own resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, it is a blueprint for the European development strategy for the next decade with the right rules for public investment and debt sustainability. The three parties agreed to transfer their political goals to the EU fiscal framework. and especially in the European Semester. They call for the creation of a new Fund for strategic investments in cutting-edge technologies, as part of the European strategy. They will continue to promote rules-based trade and fair competition, not only by strengthening trade “tools” to ensure reciprocity and coercion, but also by including in the trade agreements criteria related to sustainability, society and labor relations. “They fully support the implementation of the OECD agreement on taxation and the integration of the banking union and the capital markets union.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the commitments made by the representatives of the three political groups, we can expect that the European Parliament will support new investment programs, the taxation of large multinationals and the completion of the banking union, which is of great interest to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wording, of course, is open to interpretation, and the consensus reached at European Parliament level is not binding on the European Council, which also makes decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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