On Tuesday 17 September in Strasbourg, the pro-European political groups in the European Parliament criticised the re-elected President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, for having kept the composition of her future team a secret from the press (see EUROPE B13484A1). They have promised to conduct thorough and rigorous hearings of candidate European Commissioners, with the European Parliament’s President Roberta Metsola promising that “MEPs will not make...