Von der Leyen sets new rules for Commission cabinet hires

The future commissioners have spent weeks preparing for these rules as they intend their five-year terms in Brussels, which will certainly start pending authorization by the European Parliament after grueling hearings established for November.

Commissioners depend on cabinets to push their schedule in Brussels. Cupboards can be extremely prominent in creating and supervising thepolicy passions of their particular commissioners. This is the initial update to working with terms because von der Leyen took over as the head of the EU’s executive arm in 2019.

The redrafted regulations were closely supervised by Björn Seibert, von der Leyen’s chief of personnel. Reports were flying in Brussels that closet regulations were set for a radical shake-up; that did not transpire– bar a couple of small modifications.

Von der Leyen will remain to have 12 senior cupboard members, EU foreign events chief Kaja Kallas and the five next most senior commissioners referred to as executive vice head of states will certainly have nine (one less than in 2019) and the continuing to be 20 commissioners will certainly have six senior cabinet participants as previously.

Like 2019, there need to be at the very least 5 different races in the cupboards of von der Leyen, Kallas and the five EVPs, and three different nationalities within the rank-and-file commissioners’ cabinets.

There is additionally a brand-new policy specifying that no greater than 2 cupboard participants can come from the exact same nation as the commissioner. Von der Leyen want to prevent commissioners just working with staff from their own nations.