On Tuesday 5 September, the European Commissioner-designate, Iliana Ivanova, promised that she would “under no circumstances try to go beyond the mandate granted by the Treaties” and would scrupulously respect the competences of the Member States in the exercise of her future mandate within the ‘von der Leyen’ Commission.
During her hearing before the parliamentary committees responsible for education, culture, youth and sport (CULT) and research (ITRE) (see other news), she...