European Parliament and Council approves new Commission after a long week of hearings and compromises between the S&D, EPP and Renew groups.

The new Commission starts its term from 1 December 2024 to 31 October 2029. 

The European Parliament (EP) and Council have both given the green light for Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission to start its work on 1 December 2024.

 The EP had taken a plenary vote on 27 November, resulting in 370 votes in favour, 282 against and 36 abstentions from lawmakers in Strasbourg, obtaining approval from only 53% of all votes cast, the slimmest majority in history for a new Commission. This came after internal squabbles among the three pro-eu centrists groups whose loose alliance have traditionally controlled the majority in the EP. The EPP, the S&D and Renew attempted to patch their differences with a nine-point statement entitled “platform cooperation statement” here.

 List of College of Commissioners

The President of the Commission will be Ursula VON DER LEYEN (Germany) and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will be Kaja KALLAS (Estonia), who will also be one of the Vice-Presidents of the Commission.

The other members of the Commission will be:

•   Magnus BRUNNER (Austria)
•   Hadja LAHBIB (Belgium)
•   Ekaterina SPASOVA GECHEVA-ZAHARIEVA (Bulgaria)
•   Dubravka ŠUICA (Croatia)
•   Constantinos KADIS (Cyprus)
•   Jozef SÍKELA (Czechia)
•   Dan JØRGENSEN (Denmark)
•   Henna Maria VIRKKUNEN (Finland)
•   Stéphane SÉJOURNÉ (France)
•   Apostolos TZITZIKOSTAS (Greece)
•   Olivér VÁRHELYI (Hungary)
•   Michael MCGRATH (Ireland)
•   Raffaele FITTO (Italy)
•   Valdis DOMBROVSKIS (Latvia)
•   Andrius KUBILIUS (Lithuania)
•   Christophe HANSEN (Luxembourg)
•   Glenn MICALLEF (Malta)
•   Wopke Bastiaan HOEKSTRA (Netherlands)
•   Piotr Arkadiusz SERAFIN (Poland)
•   Maria Luís CASANOVA MORGADO DIAS DE ALBUQUERQUE (Portugal)
•   Roxana MÎNZATU (Romania)
•   Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ (Slovakia)
•   Marta KOS (Slovenia)
•   Teresa RIBERA RODRÍGUEZ (Spain)
•   Jessika ROSWALL (Sweden)

Names in bold are the ones that ASEANcham-EU had earlier identified as important to ASEAN. Their full portfolios can be found here.