✅ Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as President of the Commission by the European Parliament for a 5-year mandate. As such, she will lead the European institution in charge of proposing new legislation and policies, as well as controlling their implementation.
🤔 Will it simply stay business as usual, then? The answer is NO: in the political guidelines for the next mandate of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen calls for a Union that is faster and simpler, more supportive of people and companies.
👇 Some of my personal favourite announcement below:
🌿 « The future of the clean tech industry must be made in Europe ». The next Commission will propose a Clean Industrial Deal for competitive industries and quality jobs within the first 100 days of its mandate, to ensure a just transition benefiting both European citizens and the economy.
💶 After a geopolitical Commission, here comes an investment Commission to complete the green and digital transition and ensure the resilience of the Union to future challenges.
🚄 For travel lovers: you have dreamed about it, the next Commission will do it: the Single Digital Booking and Ticketing Regulation will enable Europeans to buy one single ticket on one single platform for a journey across the EU, while protecting your passengers rights for the whole trip. Because the EU will always be by your side wherever you go.
💬 The next Commission will strengthen the voice of the new generation in the EU decision-making: young people from all Member States will be gathered in an advisory board to directly propose ideas to Ursula von der Leyen, and all Commissioners will lead annual dialogues with the new generation to hear their concerns and receive feedback.
5 more years.
I can’t begin to express how grateful I am for the trust of all MEPs that voted for me.
Associate Editor @S&P Global Platts
7moHappy new year, Anu. Wishing you a prosperous 2014.