{"id":443032,"date":"2026-01-14T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/01\/14\/mercosur-per-von-der-leyen-arriva-una-nuova-mozione-di-censura-e-la-quarta-da-inizio-mandato\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:16:56","slug":"mercosur-von-der-leyen-faces-new-motion-of-censure-fourth-since-beginning-her-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/01\/14\/mercosur-von-der-leyen-faces-new-motion-of-censure-fourth-since-beginning-her-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercosur, von der Leyen faces new motion of censure, fourth since beginning her term."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; &#8220;No&#8221; to the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, and &#8220;no&#8221; to those who wanted and negotiated it, namely Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission. The sovereignist group Patriots for Europe says &#8220;enough is enough!&#8221; and brings a <strong>new motion of no confidence against the EU executive<\/strong> to the chamber, <strong>the fourth since the beginning of the legislative term<\/strong>. Von der Leyen&#8217;s team has already survived the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/10\/no-to-no-confidence-motion-european-parliament-backs-von-der-leyen-now-its-up-to-her-to-decide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July vote of no confidence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/09\/smooth-sailing-for-von-der-leyen-eu-parliament-largely-rejects-two-no-confidence-motions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two votes in October<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The new motion of no confidence is scheduled for Thursday, 22 January<\/strong>, preceded by a debate scheduled for Monday, 19 January. For Matteo Salvini&#8217;s Lega party, the EU-Mercosur agreement &#8220;represents a direct attack on European sovereignty and food security,&#8221; but von der Leyen is also being contested for insisting on a trade agreement that has been widely criticised and for the absence of genuine, guaranteed reciprocal measures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/lastrules\/RULE-131_EN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 131<\/a>&nbsp;of the European Parliament&#8217;s Rules of Procedure, at least one tenth of MEPs are required to table a motion of censure against the European Commission. The first plenary session of the European Parliament in 2026 will therefore be devoted to a new vote on the continuation of the current Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was presented by the Patriots group, to which Salvini&#8217;s Lega belongs. &#8220;Mercosur betrays our food security and sovereignty: enough is enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":438156,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[31257,31262,30213,26279,25755,26632,30179,26708],"class_list":["post-443032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-censorship-en","tag-trade-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-mercosur-en","tag-motion-of-confidence-en","tag-session-plenary-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443032","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443033,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443032\/revisions\/443033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}