Ursula von der Leyen is just one step away from victory. The crossfire over her new Commission 2.0, after weeks of accusations, mutual threats and negotiations, has not yet stopped. But the souls of the pro-European majority - popular, socialist and liberal - have sealed a first, fragile pact that in the next few hours could shield the two executive vice-presidents Raffaele Fitto and Teresa Ribera, casus belli of a much broader and more complex political clash.
The latest skirmishes - which occurred in the evening and led to the suspension of the evaluation of the Italian and Spanish candidates by the competent parliamentary committees - are all on the clause wanted by the EPP to force Ribera to resign in the event of formal accusations from the Iberian justice system regarding the management of the floods in his homeland. A blitz that led the socialists to urgently suspend the green light to Fitto .
In any case, the Greens, who in July were decisive in delivering Europe back into the hands of the Germans, are against the alliance. The political agreement will be formalized, barring new twists, at the plenary session of the European Parliament on November 27 with an open vote that, in the face of the probable defection of the Greens, this time should also count on the votes of the Brothers of Italy and some other delegations of the conservatives of Ecr.
(Online Union)
