Who's who in the new European Commission?

Meet the new European Commission.

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00:00After some delay due to power games, the three largest political groups in the European Parliament

00:08gave the green light to the new von der Leyen College of Commissioners.

00:12At the end, the Socialists accepted the Italian right-wing Raffaele Fitto to become Executive

00:17Vice President, while the EPP renounced to demand the downfall of the Spanish Socialist

00:22Teresa Ribera.

00:25Both will get big economic portfolios.

00:28Also, Hungarian Oliver Varhely from the far-right Patriots group survived, but he lost some

00:33powers over women's health controversy.

00:36His portfolio could be limited.

00:38Now, the hard work lies ahead for the new Commission, which faces many challenges.

00:45I would say there are two kinds of challenges for the Commission.

00:47The first kind is the priorities of the Commission, implementation of the Green Deal, going forward

00:54on defence industry, also agriculture.

00:58The Commission promised a new strategy or a new vision for agriculture in the 100 days.

01:04Also the pre-enlargement reviews of all the policies, of all the EU policies.

01:10But the second kind of challenges are the external challenges, like the election of

01:14Donald Trump, the situation in Ukraine, and also what we saw recently, the migration situation

01:21and the political consequences of it.

01:23So the Commission will have to balance what it has in priorities, but also how these priorities

01:29could be modified or disrupted by the global context, the current situation.

01:37These challenges will be addressed by vice-presidents and commissioners.

01:41The former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kalas will be the new High Representative of Foreign

01:45Affairs and Security Policy, and Lithuanian Andrius Kubulis will be the Commissioner for

01:50Defence and Space.

01:53For issues that could come up, especially with the election of Donald Trump, the Slovakian

01:57Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maro Ševcović will be the one to take action.

02:04For migration issues, the Austrian Commissioner Magnus Brunel will be responsible.

02:10At the same time, the new EU Commission may need to address some of the problems of the

02:14European citizens, which have become political.

02:18There will be two portfolios to watch.

02:21The first one on energy and housing and the political consequences of the housing crisis,

02:27and that will be the Danish Commissioner Jørgensen, and also the question of skills, meaning education,

02:33training and labour conditions with the Romanian Executive Vice-President of the Commission,

02:39Roxana Minzatu.

02:41The official vote of the plenary is expected next week in Strasbourg, which would allow

02:45the new Commission to start working on the 1st of December.

02:50So far, no other surprises are expected.