EC nominees: Hungarian new EU enlargement Commissioner, Croatian vice-president (N1)
President-elect of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, presented her new team and the new structure of the next EC on Tuesday, with Hungarian László Trócsány set to be a new Enlargement Commissioner and Croatia’s MEP Dubravka Suica as EC’s Vice-President for Democracy and Demography.
Later in September, Parliamentary committees will hold hearings for all the nominees, before they face a confirmation vote in the European Parliament, a press release from the EC said.
Trócsány, former Justice Minister (2014-2019) in Hungary in the Government of Victor Orban, was also a member of the country’s Constitutional Court and served as the Hungarian ambassador to Belgium and France.
Suica, a longtime member of the ruling centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), has served as HDZ MP from 2000 to 2011 and was first elected into the European parliament in 2013.
Earlier this year, she was appointed vice-president of the European People’s Party (EPP).
Von der Leyen said that "very good relations and strong cooperation with the Western Balkans states will be in the focus of her EC Presidentship.