Almost two months after being elected President of the European Commission with the support of the Popular, Socialists, Liberals and GreensUrsula von der Leyen is tangled in a new bobbin lace. This time, the composition of the government of her second term. The German has dedicated the last few days to meeting the candidates proposed to her by the EU governments and has also done so with the spokespeople of the groups that gave her “yes” to her nomination to see how the music of the cabinet is doing. assembly. And for the moment, the possibility that Giorgia Meloni's candidate, the Minister for European Affairs, Raffaelle Fitto, will assume the vice-presidency of the new College of Commissioners and be responsible for the important economic area, worries socialists and liberals.
“We are not satisfied with the possibility of having an ECR vice-president,” sources from the social-democrat group led by the Spanish Iratxe García in the European Parliament tell elDiario.es. Among the socialists are the Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, which includes the Fratelli d'Italia – and Vox last quarter– in the cordon sanitaire on the far right, but not in the European People's Party.