On Tuesday 23 July, European Parliament’s 90-member Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) appointed its Chair, Poland’s Borys Budka (EPP), by acclamation, along with its Vice-Chair, for a two-and-a-half-year term.
Under the ‘D’Hondt’ system, it was up to the European People’s Party (EPP) to nominate a candidate to head this committee, the largest in terms of members along with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (see other news).