But only because he wants to be prime minister. If in your election campaign you also recommend to the Dutch that they heat less, ride bicycles and air out their clothes instead of washing them, you might even win. Or not.
According to the announcement from Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, expressed her gratitude to Vice President Timmermans for his many years of work in the interest of the EU Commission and Europeans, and accepted the resignation of the Dutch EU Commissioner with immediate effect.
According to the information of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has decided to entrust the position of Executive Vice-President responsible for the European Green Agreement and the Climate Policy Ministry to Vice-President Maros Sefcovic, the member responsible for inter-institutional relations of the European Commission, until the appointment of a new member of the Brussels body with Dutch citizenship.
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The announcement quotes Ursula von der Leyen, who says that thanks to Timmermans' work for the implementation of the European Green Deal, the EU has made great strides towards meeting its goals of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 and raising global standards for action against climate change. level of ambitions. According to the Commission announcement, Ursula von der Leyen informed the President of the European Parliament and the successive Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union about the measures taken after the resignation of Frans Timmermans, aimed at the smooth continuation of ongoing cases.
The President of the EU Commission also sent an official letter to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, asking Mark Rutte to propose one female and one male candidate for the position of Commissioner.
Ursula von der Leyen wished Vice-President Sefcovic success in her new tasks and asked her to promote EU measures aimed at protecting the climate and the success of the European Green Deal, the European Commission said.
According to information, Frans Timmermans will be the joint candidate of the Labor Party (PvdA) and the Left Greens (GL) in the early Dutch parliamentary elections scheduled for November 22. The 62-year-old Labor politician, who is the top candidate of both parties, announced earlier, on July 20, that he would like to win the post of prime minister in the November elections, after the PvdA and GL announced that he would run in the elections on a joint list.
Timmermans, a former PvdA member of parliament, is returning to Dutch politics after ten years. In Mark Rutte's second government, he held the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2014, in the European Commission led by Jean-Claude Juncker, he became, among other things, the EU Commissioner responsible for the rule of law and vice-president, and from 2019, in the body led by Ursula von der Leyen, he was responsible for the implementation of the European Green Agreement. The government led by Mark Rutte was forced to resign in July after the four-party coalition could not agree on asylum reforms. Since then, the cabinet has continued its work in the capacity of administrator.
(MTI)
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