Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames
leftascenter@jlai.lu 5 weeks agoEach of the 27 Commissioners is nominated by one member states.
Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames
leftascenter@jlai.lu 5 weeks agoEach of the 27 Commissioners is nominated by one member states.
Jiral@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Which means nothing if they are not elected by the European Parliament.
leftascenter@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
They are not elected. They are just vetted by the Parliament.
Jiral@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The Commission President is literally “elected”. That is in the treaties. The Commission as a whole is facing a vote of consent. Yes. In the end it is the same. If the European Parliament rejects candidates they have to go or the Commission won’t be getting into power. This is not merely theoretical, there is precedence for that. There are also interviews of each Commission candidate in the European Parliament and those are usually way harder than anything, any minister candidate in Austria would ever face.