{"id":109674,"date":"2024-11-01T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/11\/01\/crunch-time-for-new-european-commission-european-parliament-grills-candidates\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:08:56","slug":"crunch-time-for-new-european-commission-european-parliament-grills-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/11\/01\/crunch-time-for-new-european-commission-european-parliament-grills-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch time for new European Commission: European Parliament grills candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&rsquo;s a ritual that happens every five years, and also a test for two of the EU\u2019s key institutions. Once all the European Commission&rsquo;s new members have been designated, they go through confirmation hearings before the European Parliament.\u00a0The parliament gets to flex its muscles vis-\u00e0-vis the EU executive and probe beyond the niceties of designates saying the right things about their commitment to European values. Getting through these grillings is not a foregone conclusion: last time, in 2019, three commissioner-designates were rejected. We ask our apnel of MEPs what they look for in a hearing, and if they see any of the current candidates as being particularly problematic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a ritual that happens every five years, and also a test for two of the EU\u2019s key institutions. Once all the European Commission&rsquo;s new members have been designated, they go through confirmation hearings before the European Parliament.\u00a0The parliament gets to flex its muscles vis-\u00e0-vis the EU executive and probe beyond the niceties of designates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-109674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}