CONSTITUTIVE MEETINGS OF STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / Economy/competition

Aurore Lalucq to chair European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Brussels, 23/07/2024 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 23 July, the members of European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) elected their bureau for a two-and-a-half-year term, apart from the election of the fourth vice-chair, postponed for lack of a female candidate from the conservative ECR group.

 French Socialist Aurore Lalucq was elected by acclamation Chair of the ECON Committee, which she pointed out is 80% male. She succeeds Irene Tinagli (S&D, Italian).

Promising at the session that future...