{"id":389910,"date":"2024-09-16T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/16\/breton-dimissioni-commissario-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:53:06","slug":"thierry-breton-resigns-as-eu-commissioner-and-attacks-von-der-leyen-questionable-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/16\/thierry-breton-resigns-as-eu-commissioner-and-attacks-von-der-leyen-questionable-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Thierry Breton resigns as EU commissioner and attacks von der Leyen: “Questionable governance”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Out of the blue, this morning (Sept. 16), in the EU capital,\u00a0European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, resigned with immediate effect i<\/strong>n a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, made public on her X account. Breton, the European commissioner candidate for France in the next College, accused the EU leader of asking Paris to withdraw his name “for personal reasons.”<\/p>\n

At this point, it is increasingly unlikely that von der Leyen will be able to appear at the meeting<\/a> scheduled in Strasbourg<\/a> – tomorrow, Sept. 17, with the European Parliament’s group leaders armed with the list with the 26 names of commissioner candidates and the portfolios assigned to them. On the contrary, the EU leader appears to be in trouble on several fronts<\/strong> – from the risk<\/a> of losing the support of socialists, liberals, and greens to the Marta Kos\u00a0case<\/a>\u00a0in Slovenia – and how\u00a0Breton left is likely to have side effects.<\/p>\n

“A few days ago, at the final stretch\u00a0of negotiations on the composition of the future College, you asked France to\u00a0withdraw my name – for personal reasons that in no instance\u00a0you have discussed directly with me<\/strong> – and offered, as a political trade-off, a supposedly more influential portfolio for France in the future College,” the French liberal revealed. As was already the case with Romania – which replaced the nomination of Victor Negrescu with that of Roxana M\u00eenzatu – and with Slovenia – where the appointment of Marta Kos is becoming a national case – France too was pressured by European Commission leader to rethink its nomination to the College; it has yielded, even if, according to reports on Die Welt, at first, von der Leyen was inclined to give France an executive vice-presidency with responsibility for industry and strategic economy.<\/p>\n

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“You will now be offered a different candidate,” Breton confirmed before claiming to have “fought tirelessly to uphold and advance\u00a0the common European good, above national and party interests.” Before closing the letter, the sharp\u00a0attack on von der Leyen: “In light of these latest developments – further testament of questionable governance<\/strong> – I have to\u00a0conclude that I can no longer exercise my duties in the College.”<\/p>\n

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I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team.<\/p>\n

Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda.<\/p>\n

It has been an honour & privilege to serve the common European interest pic.twitter.com\/wQ4eeHUnYu<\/a><\/p>\n

– Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) September 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breton had been nominated by Macron as a future European commissioner for France but, according to the French liberal, von der Leyen reportedly asked to withdraw his name by offering in exchange “a supposedly more influential portfolio for France in the future College.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":274562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25871,25747,25923],"class_list":["post-389910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-thierry-breton-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390454,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389910\/revisions\/390454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}