{"id":463794,"date":"2026-09-02T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/02\/dal-parlamento-europeo-il-si-alla-guida-dellitaliano-carlo-comporti-per-lesma\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:08:14","slug":"the-european-parliament-gives-the-green-light-to-italian-carlo-comporti-to-head-esma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/the-european-parliament-gives-the-green-light-to-italian-carlo-comporti-to-head-esma\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Parliament gives the green light to Italian Carlo Comporti to head ESMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 The European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) today gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20260831IPR47255\/meps-back-candidates-for-esma-chair-and-eba-executive-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its approval<\/a> to the appointment of <strong>Carlo Comporti as Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esma.europa.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESMA<\/a>)<\/strong>. The nomination, put forward by the Council of the European Union, was approved with 43 votes in favour, one against and three abstentions, following the candidate\u2019s public hearing. <strong>Thomas Gst\u00e4dtner was also given the green light as the new Executive Director of the European Banking Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eba.europa.eu\/homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EBA<\/a>)<\/strong>, with 46 votes in favour and three abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>Both appointments<strong> must now be confirmed by the European Parliament in plenary session<\/strong>, during the September session (from 14 to 17 in Strasbourg). Once the plenary has given the go-ahead, Comporti\u2019s appointment will have to be formally adopted by the Council of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are confident that the skills he has already amply demonstrated as a Consob commissioner can only strengthen the European Securities and Markets Authority,\u201d commented the MEP from the Democratic Party, <strong>Irene Tinagli<\/strong>, describing Comporti as <strong>\u201cthe right person\u201d<\/strong> to make ESMA \u201cstronger, more open, transparent and inclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pasquale Tridico<\/strong>, head of the Five Star Movement delegation to the European Parliament, also supports his appointment: \u201cDigitalisation is profoundly transforming the European financial system, creating&nbsp;new opportunities while posing new challenges for regulators. If not properly managed, these developments can pose significant risks to investors, market integrity, and overall financial stability. We are confident that Comporti\u2019s experience and vision will make a decisive contribution to strengthening ESMA\u2019s role and to guiding the European Union through this new phase of digital transformation in the financial markets,\u201d concludes the MEP.<\/p>\n<p>Comporti<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/22\/the-eu-27-choose-italian-comporti-to-head-esma-giorgetti-a-tribute-to-the-individual-and-to-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;had passed the stage&nbsp;<\/a>of the twenty-seven ambassadors from the Member States of the European Union, who&nbsp;<\/span>voted for his presidency on 22 July during the COREPER meeting. The vote was held by secret ballot, and Comporti <strong>secured 17 votes to 10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 The European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) today gave its approval to the appointment of Carlo Comporti as Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The nomination, put forward by the Council of the European Union, was approved with 43 votes in favour, one against and three abstentions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":460789,"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":[25705,25774],"tags":[26180,35579,35580,32791,26454,32746,33015,35581],"class_list":["post-463794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-brief","tag-autorita-europea-degli-strumenti-finanziari-e-dei-mercati","tag-carlo-comporti","tag-eba","tag-economy-2-en","tag-esma","tag-mercati","tag-thomas-gstadtner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463794","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\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463795,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463794\/revisions\/463795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}