Socialist and veteran climate campaigner will be one of six executive vice-presidents in European Commission team
, warning that war, discord, disinformation, social media manipulation and the increasing normalisation of the far right had put the European project at risk of “an implosion”.
The Spanish commissioner, who speaks English and French, will also take charge of EU competition policy, traditionally one of the most powerful fiefdoms in Brussels, with an instruction to make the EU rulebook that restricts mergers and government subsidies more compatible with the green transition. Competition is “a key portfolio in the transition”, a senior commission official said.
Insiders say the profusion of overlapping portfolios means only one person is in charge: von der Leyen herself. “The problem that Ribera has in my view is that she has a super big portfolio,” said one EPP source, noting that Ribera shared responsibility with Séjourné for the clean industrial deal, meaning that von der Leyen “will do the arbitrage”.
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