Re: We will never leave (Benn's bill)
Originally Posted by
Puddle Duck
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Have any of them been confirmed yet ? I thought as today they were announced they are all nominations for the positions . The Irish one is.
Each Commissioner is first nominated by their member state in consultation with the Commission President. The President's team is then subject to hearings at the european parliament, which questions them and then votes on their suitability as a whole. If members of the team are found to be inappropriate, the President must then reshuffle the team or request a new candidate from the member state or risk the whole Commission being voted down.
Although members of the Commission are allocated between member states,
they do not represent their states; instead they are supposed to act in European interests. So, in principle, these interests can be represented by 27 persons, or even less. The UK not (yet) sending a representative is no obstacle for functioning of the commission.