(AGENPARL) - Roma, 31 Ottobre 2024 - (AGENPARL) – gio 31 ottobre 2024 None [1] Press service ** European Parliament **
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None [4] The Week Ahead 04 – 10 November 2024
Hearings of Commissioners-designate
From Monday to Thursday, European Parliament committees will scrutinise 20 Commissioners-designate and evaluate whether they are qualified both to be members of the College of Commissioners and to carry out the particular duties they have been assigned. The confirmation hearings will continue on 12 November, when the five designated Executive Vice-Presidents and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission will be grilled by MEPs.
After each Commissioner hearing, the Chair(s) and group representatives (coordinators) of the committees responsible will meet without delay to evaluate the performance of the Commissioner-designate. Based on the committees’ recommendations, the Conference of Presidents (EP President Metsola and leaders of the political groups) is set to conduct the final evaluation and declare the hearings process closed on 21 November.
The vote by MEPs on the full college of Commissioners (by a majority of votes cast, by roll-call) is currently scheduled to take place during the 25-28 November plenary session in Strasbourg.
Find the detailed schedule of the hearings here [5] .
Find more detailed information about the hearings process and how to follow them in this media advisory [6] .
Find additional information also on Parliament’s dedicated website on the hearings [7] .
All hearings are public and can be followed live on Parliament’s webstreaming [8] and Ebs/Ebs+ [9] .
President’s Diary*. On Monday, EP President Roberta Metsola will meet the President of the National Council of Switzerland, Eric Nussbaumer, followed by a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, José Manuel Albares Bueno in Brussels. A meeting with Elisa Spiropali [10], the Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, is scheduled on Wednesday. On Thursday, the President will attend the meeting of the European Political Community in Budapest and she will address the Informal Meeting of EU Heads of State or Government on Friday.
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