The commission is an odd hybrid of executive, civil service and watchdog
’s government heads alighted on the former German defence minister as their surprise choice to run the European Commission, Brussels’s largest institution. She immediately suffered a series of reverses. The European Parliament approved her candidacy by the slimmest of margins. Of 26 proposed commissioners—one from eachmember government except for Britain, which refused to make a nomination despite having failed to Brexit—three were rejected.
. It has extensive powers in some areas, such as competition and product regulation, but few in others. Ms von der Leyen will oversee the work of 32,000 civil servants from her office on the 13th floor of the Berlaymont building in Brussels, which the hard-working president has also converted into a small flat. In one sense she arrives at a more propitious moment than her predecessor, Jean-Claude Juncker.
The new president will also face challenges from within. The fractured parliament that emerged after the European elections in May will not always prove so obliging as it did this week. Ever-present splits among governments will deepen as rich and poor countries bicker over the’s seven-year budget, which must be agreed on in 2020. And fresh divides are emerging over Emmanuel Macron’s disruptive ideas forenlargement.
Ms von der Leyen has promised a flurry of early initiatives, including on pay and the “human and ethical implications” of artificial intelligence. The first of her blockbusters will be a “European Green Deal”, a set of climate proposals that are planned for mid-December. Ms von der Leyen aspires to turn Europe carbon-neutral by 2050 and to tighten the 2030 emissions target. That implies tweaks to the’s carbon-trading market as well as a tax on imports from less green places.
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