The ‘casting’ for the future European College of Commissioners was completed on Monday 2 September after Belgium nominated its candidate in the person of the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hadja Lahbib, thus ruling out the name of the current European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders.
On X, Georges-Louis Bouchez, President of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR), from which the candidate hails, explained that “this appointment reflects a desire for feminisation and renewal...