May 26, 2019
By Viktoria Dendrinous and Birgit Jennen
Margrethe Vestager (click here) is eyeing a path to become the first woman atop the EU, as focus shifts from the results of the bloc-wide elections to leaders’ haggling over who’ll be put at the helm of the European Commission.
They are fighting corruption. There is a distinct rise in power for women.
The Liberal Danish EU antitrust chief, who has made a name for herself by taking on U.S. tech giants, hasn’t kept shy about her intention to seize the EU’s most powerful post, calling for gender balance in the upper echelons of the European Union and for an end to the center-right’s hold on power in Brussels.
EU leaders will hold a special summit on Tuesday to kick off a first round of horsetrading over top EU jobs that could be mired in stalemate. At stake isn’t just the leadership of the commission, which has major powers on key issues such as competition and trade, but also that of the European Central Bank. This means the final compromise could affect the EU’s economic policy making for the next decade.
Any time there is focus on banking and changing rules and regs there is always a huge power struggle regardless of the election vote. It is time the Europeans that want to fight corruption, actually do it with a leader in Margrethe Vestager that has a PROVEN RECORD (click here). The Europeans need to stand up for her and let their EU leaders know they are under scrutiny for any further corruption allowed within the EU now that the vote is registered. The election is only the beginning for moral advocacy, not the end.
The haggling over the top roles comes at a tricky time for Europe’s traditional political groups. While mainstream EU parties held their ground against the assault from populists in elections for the bloc’s Parliament, that was largely thanks to gains from pro-EU Liberals and Greens....
