Mistake! 4:44 Romania's representative Roxana Minzatu is actually part of S&D, not EPP, as she is a member of the Social Democrat Party. Apologies for the mistake. Thanks for pointing it out in the comments. This means that S&D has 5 commissioners and EPP has 13 commissioners total
So you're out there both censoring and misinforming us at the same time, in the true spirit of Brussels. How much comment section censorship is enough? Are you going to censor this comment too?
Can you make tier list of commissioner portfolios? to describe which is important and has real power and which primarily exists only to fill the gap and have 27 countries secured with something.
I am all for women in positions like these, but explicitly calling for women instead of men without an unbiased and objective performance review or interview beforehand is dumb! The next decades will be decided by who is most performant not who is more equal in the detriment of performance. China is winning because it doesn't have dumb ideas like this. Find better ways to get women into positions like these!!!
You think these women haven't earned a spot? Considering how big position this is no government would be putting forward a candidate they wouldn't be approving of. Of course it makes sense to push some governments to try and balance the thing out and as we can see here, it's not like this has resulted in some awful group of unqualified women in top places of power lol
@@praetoriancorps in politics it has traditionally been that the old guys that kept the power for the longest time weren't the happiest when their friendgroups weren't able to just keep the power. Things have slowly gotten better but sadly in some areas it's still required to give an extra push to get the leaders reflect more of the voter base and the people they represent. Having more broad group of leaders isn't a bad thing and these people certainly have the backings of their elected governments. They wouldn't give this position to someone who wasn't qualified
@@kirjoittajajoni I’m not saying they haven’t earned a spot or that they’re completely unqualified. On the contrary they might be, but we’ll never know if the criteria was gender before skills. I’m criticizing the way they’ve been chosen not their actual competence. In a business if an executive is even 5% better than another it can make the difference between the company surviving in the free market or not. And you can find that employee if you look strictly based on skills in an objective way. Why should not this be the case on positions in the EU where competition with China and other countries is much more difficult?
Man... When will people go finally to the level of not gender, but skill and knowledge based choosing. Is it just me who see this as a much more important aspect?
This is concerning but at least half of these women have proven themselves to be quite capable (the other half i dont know) so Von der Leyen definitely took ability into account.
We will get there, but we have to correct centuries of male dominated politics. Stop complaining about women. Men are not going to give up power, we have to take it.
@@kianlakchi7182 that might be the case but in these types of position dont u want the very best person possible? there might be a better woman or man than the one put forward
@@peterfireflylund was Chernobyl environmentally friendly and safe? Because in Italy we still remember that and voting a referendum against nuclear energy. I think the sun and the wind are safer options.
@@JessicaDainese it’s not my fault you are wrong (and scientifically illiterate). Perhaps look into how and why one of the Chernobyl reactors went wrong (and why the others didn’t)? And how it required an immensely stupid reactor design, with essentially zero monitoring sensors, incompetently operated by people who tried to idiotic things? And how no other reactor design before and after was so stupid and unsafe? It is possible to build all sorts of dumb and unsafe chemical plants (remember Bhopal? Seveso? Minamata? Chernobyl was a tiny rounding error compared to those). It is also possible to build safe chemical plants. Nuclear power is no different, except that it is probably a lot easier to build safe nuclear power plants.
Solar and wind energy are not enough to decarbonize any country at all (at least without spending far more money than necessary). For Chernobyl, they were experimenting, didn't follow the rules and that reactor was a second generation. Now we have the third generation and in the following years we will have the fourth, they are secure and this kind of energy is necessary to solve our energy problem.
Because it's the current national government of a member state, that's the one nominating their commissioner, therefore the partisan composition of the commission as a whole closely matches with pan-european affiliations of the ruling local parties, rather than results of the EU elections.
@@ldubt4494EU population is getting dumber. We will become the USA if Europeans dont become more educated. In Italy we have imported doctors from Cuba. Cuba has more educated people than us. Education is failing Europeans.
You can´t force woman in specific positions, they have to be qualified for the job, otherwise this whole gender parity will do Europe more harm then good.
None of these people are qualified. They are all political appointees. EU is a sinking ship sailing in circles a couple hundred meters off the coast, with or without the corrupt gender quota system.
@@cia5649 No they are not. Why? because they think with emotions not with the brain. Women should be bearing children and cooking dinner in the kitchen and not getting involved in politics.
BROOOO why did Von Der Leyen assigned the Portfolio about Cohesion&Reforms to a ECR guy ? Like WHY ? They are anti-EU reform 😭 This have to be the DUMBEST choice when you know that the EU parliament voted in favor of EU treaty reform last november
@@Jrv175 One country is enough to veto the abolishment, but currently 10 countries are against the abolishment of veto, which number is likely increase after this and next years' elections. Veto is going to remain regardless of the commissioner
Because Italy is the third biggest country and the ECR is a big group. Without anyone representing Italy it would basically be open war with the commission.
As an Austrian I have to say, why do you had to give us a important roll at all?! It won't get better with us when you look at the next election in 2 weeks :c
The EPP considers the Czech commissioner Josef Síkela to be their commissioner in their official posts on social media as STAN (Mayors and Independents, the party that nominated him, even though he was never a member of theirs) is a member of the EPP EP fraction.
I don't understand why Ursula von der Leyen cares about whether there are an equal number of men and women on the team? Like, she should choose how capable a person is, not what gender he or she is...
Presumably there is strong correlation between national government lead party & commissioner's party? Commissioners are representatives of each nation, not of the European parliament.
Disgusting that policy of equal male/female ratio. The *working*population is very different between males and females as many women choose to stay at home with their children or work part time, in which case you're not eligible for a full time job at the Commission.
Can we get a petition to remove the ability of Greece to nominate anyone in the position of sustainable transportation and tourism until the european courts for the Tempi scandal concludes succesfully instead of forcing it down in a incomclusive state? This is a disgrace of democracy and this comes from a Greek. Getting someone who was associated with a party that is responsible for two trains crushing together on the *only* railway route greece has with 55 people dead, is not makong europe look good in any way shape or form.
@@imcbocian They are responsible for the crush. The greek government is also responsible for the infrastructure and maintenance, they don't own the trains anymore, but they were so incompetent that when they sold them, the deal included that they will be responsible for the maintenance of the railway. Consequently at multiple points in their history they applied for EU funds for upgrading the current infrastructure of the railway (again they don't own it, but they are responsible for maintenance and infrastructure), for upgrading the automatic systems and the security systems. In the European court even though there were kits that were bought by the Greek government, they were never installed and to this day they are stored in a stock house. By the way the equipment was bought by the first and second application, the third application was for maintenance and further upgrading of these systems.
0:40 the EU wonders why it's crap and instead of fixing it, they are getting unqualified women to do the job Hire the best person who can handle the stress of politics
@@farright118 agreed! Imagine if she had said she wanted more men and that she would give them the more powerful positions, just because of their gender?
If you had to hire 1 person out of 10.000 (example number) possible applicants, do you think you'd be able to order them in a list from best to worst without any ties? No, of course not. Measuring someone's ability to do a job before they do the job is very very tricky. This is on top of the fact that von der Leyen asked for 1 male and one female candidates per country. Edit: Clarification on the last line.
@mr.netflix9149 not all politicians are professional or qualified people. Italy had elected a porno star as MEP..am not sure if her expertise were enough to take care of the EU problems
Nope, they joined the EPP EP fraction right after the elections, they are not, however, members of the EPP itself. So it is the same as in the previous term. EPP considers Síkela to be their commissioner in their official posts on social media.
Nobody in 🇵🇹 likes Maria Luís Albuquerque from Portugal, except the ones of her party. She was like Troika's butcher, in two years she made 6 national budgets, she's a fan of austerity policies, more than Troika and we don't know any political thoughts about EU. Horrible, horrible, horrible choice.
Pretty sure egality and equal opportunity are concepts Europeans developed & propagated across the world. Now they're making quick turns to pick positions based on gender for their own ruling body? Fairly certain there's a term for that, & it's the not ones listed.
@@lend9754 Okay some fields/pursuits have statistically more men in them (ie. construction, military) & some more women (ie. nursing). According to her arrangement, the entire commission should be filled at 50-50 overall, no if's or but's. So instead of selecting candidates based on whether they're most qualified, this seems like allocating the positions with the people she favors, then filling up the rest based on the gender ratio. Which meant even if there are more capable male candidates (because statistically to this day there are more men in politics almost everywhere, not saying it's right just a fact), the women candidates will be selected for the interest of gender ratio, instead of her capabilities, which I'm sure she is capable. So in this outcome, not only is there a sour note from the men who were disqualified/on low priority solely because of their gender, the women will have to accept that their capabilities were not the primary criteria that secure them the role. You see how this is a problem? Unsurprisingly, even after multiple pushbacks, it did not turn out the way she wanted, which kinda proves the point itself.
VDL is becoming a rascal . Kicking out the best French commissioner ever made me mad !!! And the weaker Macron let it be, what a shame losing such a hard working , tough and capable man.
The Council (a mix of directly and indirectly elected people) and the Parliament (directly elected). You don't get to vote for your Prime Minister, either.
So positions are given based on what you have between your legs not based on competence? Call me chauvinist or whatever you like, but I don’t think that will lead to anything constructive and only give another reason for eurosceptics to be agains EU :/ bad idea, but if you care only for your political career and don’t care about consequences then this sis the way to go
The EU itself is not about anything constructive. This whole commission assembly process is a distraction for the masses. Nobody should take it (or the EU) seriously, with or without the stupid quota system.
Eu is a joke, it was only meant as an economical alliance but then suddenly the elitist there wanted more power. Now we have "EU laws" and now they want an "European army" probably theirs to command of course, and all the states under the control of some elite people with no allegiance to any country in particular. The current EU is up to no good and i think that's why the states are ok with more chill women there. No state wants EU to start materialising their now long standing imperial ambitions, so they elect these weak leaders like Ursula, which in turn have these completely funny and unrealistic ideeas like victory for ukraine, 50-50 equality for men and women in every domain, and carbon neutral untill 2050. Everyone knows none of these things eill actually happen. But states tolerate it, because it's better than the alternative. Europe stil needs an economic alliance, but states try to keep their independence as much as possible.
The removal of Breton was maybe the best news of this Commission. This guy bears a massive responsibility of European lack of competitiveness in tech, and thus the lack of economic growth, and thus, Europeans being poorer. Imagine being proud of being the first one to regulate the most promising tech sector in the last decade, despite having no big actors in it.... Why can't we put those kind of people in trials ?
That's the thing genius, this sector is full of foreign companies so it need regulation more to keep those companies from rulling too much how things work here.
@@Kafei01 You mean to keep them out of Europe so an European company can thrive ? That's what they said when he regulated social media and Big Tech companies. The result ? No one wants to invests in Europe, not even Europeans, and we have a massive brain drain of engineers going to USA.
@@Kafei01 So instead of trying to create our own tech companies, we stop any innovations reaching Europe, making the entire continent lagging behind everyone else. What do you think is the result of those policies ? Why do you think USA and China had 2x to 4x more growth than us ? Why Europeans GDP per capita stagnated ? Why so many young Europeans leave for USA, Canada or Australia ? We started this century almost as wealthy as Americans, way more wealthy than Chinese, look at us now. We are acting like 19th century China in face of development. We closing our borders from innovation on the ground that it is foreign. I will have our own century of humiliation soon if we don't change our mentality now. We need to act more like 19th century Japan than 19th century China. First step is to acknowledge we are behind, accept foreign companies investment and control for few decades, until we can makes our own.
Seems fair to me. If any country should pay asylum-related fines to the EU, it should be Germany. Certainly not Hungary. Why punish them for doing the right thing?
@@Hardcore_Remixer What's more infuriating is that H**gary 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢caused the 2015 Paris attacks because they choose to not make any checks to the asylum seekers and sent them straight to Western Europe.
@@bettercallseal Sorry. Got used to pro-EU integration comments always bashing Hungary for being nationalist 😅 Though, I doubt Belarus wants them either. The difference is that Belarus isn't in EU so we could block out the illeagles coming from there... but I suppose we just won't, just like with the ones coming from everywhere else... As long as we keep our external borders open for the sake of 'the moral argument of white guilt', we kinda deserve it.
Hope Europe stop destroying itself with so much illegal immigrants or asylum seekers from Africa and other non Euro countries. Sad how parts of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Uk and Sweden are.
Sure but at least we get a good economic growth in return... Wait no we don't, we are one of the least economically dynamic region in the world. But at least we get the praise of the world for our humanitarian actions.... Wait, no again, Asians doesn't care and Africans hate our guts so much that they do terrorism on us from now and then. Ok, why are we doing this ????
@@cliffordjames4462 native people are getting replaced by inmigrants from non euro countries and silenced by gov. lots of crimes and the only punishment they face is deportation (and the ones they manage to catch). This is happening in lots of cities and towns. Its tyrannical and evil
@@JessicaDainese Wind isn't stable. That means the more wind turbines we get, the more do we need something else that can take over -- at very short notice! -- when the wind doesn't blow. That is water reservoirs in places where the geography makes sense (mountains) -- with all the associated environmental problems -- and natural gas, which comes with both environmental problems and geopolitical problems (Russia, Qatar, Libya, Morocco). The whole package is a lot more expensive than we are usually told in the media. Using nuclear power instead is a much better choice -- no need for foreign gas from nasty countries, much cheaper, much safer, huge future stability (we have plenty of uranium in Europe + it is super easy to stockpile decades of fuel), essentially zero pollution.
He is also generally known to be... "not the most power consuming light bulb", so to speak. Quite dim, in other words. I want the current Energy Commissioner to continue, even if that results in two Commissioners from Estonia. They are both very qualified for their jobs.
@@peterfireflylund should have stayed friends with Russia and Lybia then. Who ruined Lybia and who blew up Nordstream? Oh yes, our American "friends". You are not telling me how nuclear is safe. Again, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
@@peterfireflylund unfortunately there can't be 2 people from the same country. Personally I really want a energy commissioner who isn't positive towards unstable energy sources like wind and solar without stable energy like nuclear
@@mr.netflix9149 LMAO these 2 comments. For any who dont actually know: a Junta is when the military has control of the government, usually with a small council or a dictator taking charge.
Mistake! 4:44 Romania's representative Roxana Minzatu is actually part of S&D, not EPP, as she is a member of the Social Democrat Party. Apologies for the mistake. Thanks for pointing it out in the comments. This means that S&D has 5 commissioners and EPP has 13 commissioners total
The EPP posted that they have 15 commissions including VdL. I think it was Costas Kadis
So you're out there both censoring and misinforming us at the same time, in the true spirit of Brussels.
How much comment section censorship is enough? Are you going to censor this comment too?
Can you make tier list of commissioner portfolios? to describe which is important and has real power and which primarily exists only to fill the gap and have 27 countries secured with something.
Good idea.
I am all for women in positions like these, but explicitly calling for women instead of men without an unbiased and objective performance review or interview beforehand is dumb! The next decades will be decided by who is most performant not who is more equal in the detriment of performance. China is winning because it doesn't have dumb ideas like this. Find better ways to get women into positions like these!!!
You think these women haven't earned a spot? Considering how big position this is no government would be putting forward a candidate they wouldn't be approving of. Of course it makes sense to push some governments to try and balance the thing out and as we can see here, it's not like this has resulted in some awful group of unqualified women in top places of power lol
Probably because the appointed men still ignore and dismiss obbious rights of women. You really can't cure that biias in men.
@@kirjoittajajoni In politics, It would not be surprising if that's actually the case. Time will tell.
@@praetoriancorps in politics it has traditionally been that the old guys that kept the power for the longest time weren't the happiest when their friendgroups weren't able to just keep the power. Things have slowly gotten better but sadly in some areas it's still required to give an extra push to get the leaders reflect more of the voter base and the people they represent. Having more broad group of leaders isn't a bad thing and these people certainly have the backings of their elected governments. They wouldn't give this position to someone who wasn't qualified
@@kirjoittajajoni I’m not saying they haven’t earned a spot or that they’re completely unqualified. On the contrary they might be, but we’ll never know if the criteria was gender before skills. I’m criticizing the way they’ve been chosen not their actual competence.
In a business if an executive is even 5% better than another it can make the difference between the company surviving in the free market or not. And you can find that employee if you look strictly based on skills in an objective way. Why should not this be the case on positions in the EU where competition with China and other countries is much more difficult?
4:44 Romania's representative Roxana Minzatu is actually part of S&D, not EPP, as she is a member of the Social Democrat Party.
Thank you for pointint it out. Sorry for the mistake. We made a sticky.
Man... When will people go finally to the level of not gender, but skill and knowledge based choosing. Is it just me who see this as a much more important aspect?
This is concerning but at least half of these women have proven themselves to be quite capable (the other half i dont know) so Von der Leyen definitely took ability into account.
But that isn't how progressivism works.
I meant it to be satire.
We will get there, but we have to correct centuries of male dominated politics. Stop complaining about women. Men are not going to give up power, we have to take it.
@@kianlakchi7182 that might be the case but in these types of position dont u want the very best person possible? there might be a better woman or man than the one put forward
@@JessicaDainese Is it not sexism to make a choice with consideration on they gender? You can't fix sexism with more sexism.
The fact that they still managed to appoint many anti-nuclear weirdos in 2024 makes me even more pessimistic about our future.
Why do you want nuclear?
@@JessicaDainese it's better and cheaper and more environmentally friendly. There are no good reasons to be against it.
@@peterfireflylund was Chernobyl environmentally friendly and safe? Because in Italy we still remember that and voting a referendum against nuclear energy. I think the sun and the wind are safer options.
@@JessicaDainese it’s not my fault you are wrong (and scientifically illiterate). Perhaps look into how and why one of the Chernobyl reactors went wrong (and why the others didn’t)? And how it required an immensely stupid reactor design, with essentially zero monitoring sensors, incompetently operated by people who tried to idiotic things? And how no other reactor design before and after was so stupid and unsafe?
It is possible to build all sorts of dumb and unsafe chemical plants (remember Bhopal? Seveso? Minamata? Chernobyl was a tiny rounding error compared to those). It is also possible to build safe chemical plants. Nuclear power is no different, except that it is probably a lot easier to build safe nuclear power plants.
Solar and wind energy are not enough to decarbonize any country at all (at least without spending far more money than necessary). For Chernobyl, they were experimenting, didn't follow the rules and that reactor was a second generation. Now we have the third generation and in the following years we will have the fourth, they are secure and this kind of energy is necessary to solve our energy problem.
Why are there more renew ministers then S&D when the S&D got double the seats. Also why give ECR a minister when the greens saved von der lyon.
Because it's the current national government of a member state, that's the one nominating their commissioner, therefore the partisan composition of the commission as a whole closely matches with pan-european affiliations of the ruling local parties, rather than results of the EU elections.
Because the population shifted more to the right, she was smart to make a more right wing cabinet. It aligns better with the vote.
@@ldubt4494EU population is getting dumber. We will become the USA if Europeans dont become more educated. In Italy we have imported doctors from Cuba. Cuba has more educated people than us. Education is failing Europeans.
Because she wants to build a center wing commission
You can´t force woman in specific positions, they have to be qualified for the job, otherwise this whole gender parity will do Europe more harm then good.
None of these people are qualified. They are all political appointees. EU is a sinking ship sailing in circles a couple hundred meters off the coast, with or without the corrupt gender quota system.
they all are qualified tho
@@cia5649 No they are not. Why? because they think with emotions not with the brain. Women should be bearing children and cooking dinner in the kitchen and not getting involved in politics.
@@cia5649 LOL.
This kind of forced gender equality really hurts Europe.
BROOOO why did Von Der Leyen assigned the Portfolio about Cohesion&Reforms to a ECR guy ? Like WHY ? They are anti-EU reform 😭 This have to be the DUMBEST choice when you know that the EU parliament voted in favor of EU treaty reform last november
Guess we re stuck with the Veto for a few more years... Fuck
that AND anti-nuclear danish on energy. They should have sacked Von der Leyen
The Belgian NVA (which is a part of ECR) seems to want significant reforms.
@@Jrv175 One country is enough to veto the abolishment, but currently 10 countries are against the abolishment of veto, which number is likely increase after this and next years' elections. Veto is going to remain regardless of the commissioner
Because Italy is the third biggest country and the ECR is a big group. Without anyone representing Italy it would basically be open war with the commission.
As an Austrian I have to say, why do you had to give us a important roll at all?! It won't get better with us when you look at the next election in 2 weeks :c
Funnily enough, it seems Austria always gets quite important positions. Don't know if our guys are qualified though 😅
What's going on with Austrian elections? I haven't heard much news on it here in Ireland.
@@docopoper the far right will get the most % and they are not only problematic, they are also completely against the EU
Way to downtalk your own country. Brunner is excellent
@@docopoper FPÖ, a far-right conservative party will probably win (now there's a multi-party coalition)
POV: You play a different path as Willhelm and you end your focus tree in HOI4.
The EPP considers the Czech commissioner Josef Síkela to be their commissioner in their official posts on social media as STAN (Mayors and Independents, the party that nominated him, even though he was never a member of theirs) is a member of the EPP EP fraction.
Its weird that the number of countries is exactly the same as the number of portfolios no matter how many extra countries join or leave.
Thanks for the video!
thank eu made simple
You are welcome 😊
Defence is not the responsibility of the EU. For that matter, neither is foreign affairs.
I think health and animal welfare is very significant. Maybe not with an incompetent EU but in my world, it is.
Great Job! Thank you for informing us!
For the representative and full viewpoint coverage to be valid, maybe a bell curve of age groups would have been also necessary.
Animal healthcare shouldn’t be that little important 😢
Roxana Minzatu is in S&D , she is a social democrat.
I don't understand why Ursula von der Leyen cares about whether there are an equal number of men and women on the team? Like, she should choose how capable a person is, not what gender he or she is...
Great content as always
Presumably there is strong correlation between national government lead party & commissioner's party? Commissioners are representatives of each nation, not of the European parliament.
2:56 and that bastard is on cohesion? What the actual fuck???
Disgusting that policy of equal male/female ratio.
The *working*population is very different between males and females as many women choose to stay at home with their children or work part time, in which case you're not eligible for a full time job at the Commission.
Not every Commissioner is new! There are some familiar faces from the previous Commission
Can we get a petition to remove the ability of Greece to nominate anyone in the position of sustainable transportation and tourism until the european courts for the Tempi scandal concludes succesfully instead of forcing it down in a incomclusive state?
This is a disgrace of democracy and this comes from a Greek. Getting someone who was associated with a party that is responsible for two trains crushing together on the *only* railway route greece has with 55 people dead, is not makong europe look good in any way shape or form.
In Greece railways are operared by politycal parties? Rlly?
@@imcbocian They are responsible for the crush. The greek government is also responsible for the infrastructure and maintenance, they don't own the trains anymore, but they were so incompetent that when they sold them, the deal included that they will be responsible for the maintenance of the railway. Consequently at multiple points in their history they applied for EU funds for upgrading the current infrastructure of the railway (again they don't own it, but they are responsible for maintenance and infrastructure), for upgrading the automatic systems and the security systems. In the European court even though there were kits that were bought by the Greek government, they were never installed and to this day they are stored in a stock house. By the way the equipment was bought by the first and second application, the third application was for maintenance and further upgrading of these systems.
They had to give Greece a position so they gave them one where they can’t cause too much damage
Good analysis!!
Discrimination of men! Why should it matter which gender the politics are that the countries feel best represents set country?!
Men are still the majority: dIsCrImInAtIoN oF mEn
Well, men ended up making up 60% of the new commissions positions. I get what you mean though, but I wouldn't call it discrimination.
Yep, it’s dumb.
Stop whining. We men have done it for centuries. She asked for 50/50 but still only got 60/40 male/female-ratio
That's not how discrimination works.
0:40 the EU wonders why it's crap and instead of fixing it, they are getting unqualified women to do the job
Hire the best person who can handle the stress of politics
This is part of the game to further weaken the Eu
@@farright118 agreed! Imagine if she had said she wanted more men and that she would give them the more powerful positions, just because of their gender?
If you had to hire 1 person out of 10.000 (example number) possible applicants, do you think you'd be able to order them in a list from best to worst without any ties?
No, of course not. Measuring someone's ability to do a job before they do the job is very very tricky.
This is on top of the fact that von der Leyen asked for 1 male and one female candidates per country.
Edit: Clarification on the last line.
Do you think they just picked random women from the street? Or why do you think those women are unqualified?
@mr.netflix9149 not all politicians are professional or qualified people.
Italy had elected a porno star as MEP..am not sure if her expertise were enough to take care of the EU problems
About Czech comisioner, they still deciding if they join Liberals or EPP
Nope, they joined the EPP EP fraction right after the elections, they are not, however, members of the EPP itself. So it is the same as in the previous term. EPP considers Síkela to be their commissioner in their official posts on social media.
The PROPOSED new Commission... I mean, hearings etc.?
Nobody in 🇵🇹 likes Maria Luís Albuquerque from Portugal, except the ones of her party. She was like Troika's butcher, in two years she made 6 national budgets, she's a fan of austerity policies, more than Troika and we don't know any political thoughts about EU. Horrible, horrible, horrible choice.
And the Vice-Presidency of Spain? Thank you.
Pretty sure egality and equal opportunity are concepts Europeans developed & propagated across the world. Now they're making quick turns to pick positions based on gender for their own ruling body? Fairly certain there's a term for that, & it's the not ones listed.
Say what you will but she did ask for a male and a female candidate. That doesn't sound much like the term you're alluding to.
@@lend9754 Okay some fields/pursuits have statistically more men in them (ie. construction, military) & some more women (ie. nursing). According to her arrangement, the entire commission should be filled at 50-50 overall, no if's or but's. So instead of selecting candidates based on whether they're most qualified, this seems like allocating the positions with the people she favors, then filling up the rest based on the gender ratio. Which meant even if there are more capable male candidates (because statistically to this day there are more men in politics almost everywhere, not saying it's right just a fact), the women candidates will be selected for the interest of gender ratio, instead of her capabilities, which I'm sure she is capable. So in this outcome, not only is there a sour note from the men who were disqualified/on low priority solely because of their gender, the women will have to accept that their capabilities were not the primary criteria that secure them the role. You see how this is a problem?
Unsurprisingly, even after multiple pushbacks, it did not turn out the way she wanted, which kinda proves the point itself.
I love that the EU takes pride in regulating things, even before they need that regulation. It's so delightfully stupid and counterproductive.
It’s better than the American approach where the regulations tend to be written after people die.
VDL is becoming a rascal . Kicking out the best French commissioner ever made me mad !!!
And the weaker Macron let it be, what a shame losing such a hard working , tough and capable man.
its interesting how the croatian member is a female(HDZ) yet in the government of croatia itself they gave the least amount of women.
bureaucrats in europe, autocrats in croatia
I would honestly be appointed if I got the position for animals. Like at that point just dont appoint me to anything.
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A dictator?
Nice vid
It's crazy she had to try so hard to get even 40% when her goal was 50%.
Can you do now and EU, please?
Glad that we have so many commissioners on environment and climate change issues
like they can change anything
Deeply dissapointed at the position, the schengen blocker got given. He's the last person.
Roxana Mâncatul from Romanania is S&D not EPP
New avengers team LETS GOOO
Guys, do your research. Roxana Manzatu is from S&D not PPE
we aplogies. WE made a sticky. thank you for pointing it out
Ta umelecká farba EÚ je studená na rozdiel od farby Adf ktorá je tepla
Where is Sejouné allegiance, to Europe or to Israel ? Does he admit that there is ethnic cleansing going on in the Gaza ghetto ?
"grabs popcorn"
will you cover everyone in detale in another video?
NO WAY IT'S DEI!!!😆
Who elected her?
The Council (a mix of directly and indirectly elected people) and the Parliament (directly elected). You don't get to vote for your Prime Minister, either.
No one, there was no election as this office is appointed.
Smart kid belt
Doomed to fail because they were not chosen based on their merits. The EU is set for hard times!
They are never chosen for their merits but because member states want people in that position that will listen to them.
the germans used to call them gauleiter. different name same agenda
Why is she soooooooo unsympathetic to me?
For you too as well?
this must be a joke. Cmon
Progressivism. Comes at in same pakage with feminism. It had to be there 😂
Oh yes feminism
Oy vey feminism
Men complaining about feminism when women had no power for most of history. You just can not give up power peacefully can you?
So positions are given based on what you have between your legs not based on competence? Call me chauvinist or whatever you like, but I don’t think that will lead to anything constructive and only give another reason for eurosceptics to be agains EU :/ bad idea, but if you care only for your political career and don’t care about consequences then this sis the way to go
The EU itself is not about anything constructive. This whole commission assembly process is a distraction for the masses. Nobody should take it (or the EU) seriously, with or without the stupid quota system.
Eu is a joke, it was only meant as an economical alliance but then suddenly the elitist there wanted more power. Now we have "EU laws" and now they want an "European army" probably theirs to command of course, and all the states under the control of some elite people with no allegiance to any country in particular. The current EU is up to no good and i think that's why the states are ok with more chill women there. No state wants EU to start materialising their now long standing imperial ambitions, so they elect these weak leaders like Ursula, which in turn have these completely funny and unrealistic ideeas like victory for ukraine, 50-50 equality for men and women in every domain, and carbon neutral untill 2050. Everyone knows none of these things eill actually happen. But states tolerate it, because it's better than the alternative. Europe stil needs an economic alliance, but states try to keep their independence as much as possible.
Why is Ursula still president ? Nobody vote for her ! We Europeans need a real democraty !
Tak v nie fyzické demokracii miliardy nie suhlasov
looks like VDL is much less popular then LVMH :) perceived quality lacking? :)
Is DEI and suicide for EU economic because of progressive ideologies
Oh god, they are putting Nafo trolls in positions of power now? This is how the EU dies, with a thunderous applause.
Kaja Kallas is a great choice.
24k comedy gold
i hate all the woke nonsense. stop it
The removal of Breton was maybe the best news of this Commission.
This guy bears a massive responsibility of European lack of competitiveness in tech, and thus the lack of economic growth, and thus, Europeans being poorer.
Imagine being proud of being the first one to regulate the most promising tech sector in the last decade, despite having no big actors in it....
Why can't we put those kind of people in trials ?
That's the thing genius, this sector is full of foreign companies so it need regulation more to keep those companies from rulling too much how things work here.
@@Kafei01 You mean to keep them out of Europe so an European company can thrive ?
That's what they said when he regulated social media and Big Tech companies.
The result ? No one wants to invests in Europe, not even Europeans, and we have a massive brain drain of engineers going to USA.
I see your point, but putting people we disagree with on trials has just not worked out very well in the past.
@@Kafei01
So instead of trying to create our own tech companies, we stop any innovations reaching Europe, making the entire continent lagging behind everyone else.
What do you think is the result of those policies ? Why do you think USA and China had 2x to 4x more growth than us ? Why Europeans GDP per capita stagnated ? Why so many young Europeans leave for USA, Canada or Australia ?
We started this century almost as wealthy as Americans, way more wealthy than Chinese, look at us now.
We are acting like 19th century China in face of development. We closing our borders from innovation on the ground that it is foreign. I will have our own century of humiliation soon if we don't change our mentality now. We need to act more like 19th century Japan than 19th century China.
First step is to acknowledge we are behind, accept foreign companies investment and control for few decades, until we can makes our own.
4:18 Sending asylum seekers straight to Belgium. Sounds familiar...
Edit: Since euro-skeptics think I'm blaming Brussels, I'm talking about Western R**sia (or Northern Ukraine) 🤢🇷🇺 🇧🇾
I mean, EU wants them in while Hungary doesn't and Bruxeles is EU's capital, so why not?
Seems fair to me. If any country should pay asylum-related fines to the EU, it should be Germany. Certainly not Hungary. Why punish them for doing the right thing?
@@Hardcore_Remixer You are wrong, I was thinking of Belar*s 🤢 🇷🇺
@@Hardcore_Remixer What's more infuriating is that H**gary 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢caused the 2015 Paris attacks because they choose to not make any checks to the asylum seekers and sent them straight to Western Europe.
@@bettercallseal Sorry. Got used to pro-EU integration comments always bashing Hungary for being nationalist 😅
Though, I doubt Belarus wants them either. The difference is that Belarus isn't in EU so we could block out the illeagles coming from there... but I suppose we just won't, just like with the ones coming from everywhere else...
As long as we keep our external borders open for the sake of 'the moral argument of white guilt', we kinda deserve it.
Táhni
Först 😢😢😢
Fitto sucks.
Hope Europe stop destroying itself with so much illegal immigrants or asylum seekers from Africa and other non Euro countries. Sad how parts of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Uk and Sweden are.
Sure but at least we get a good economic growth in return...
Wait no we don't, we are one of the least economically dynamic region in the world.
But at least we get the praise of the world for our humanitarian actions....
Wait, no again, Asians doesn't care and Africans hate our guts so much that they do terrorism on us from now and then.
Ok, why are we doing this ????
What's wrong with those countries you mentioned?
@@cliffordjames4462 native people are getting replaced by inmigrants from non euro countries and silenced by gov. lots of crimes and the only punishment they face is deportation (and the ones they manage to catch). This is happening in lots of cities and towns. Its tyrannical and evil
Italy is fine, most of our immigrants are Albanian and Romanian anyway.
@@cliffordjames4462nothing is wrong with Italy, just stupid anti-immigration propaganda from this corrupt incompetent government.
Bit weird to claim that Rafaelle Fitto is the only member of a right wing party considering the fact that renew europe and the EPP are also right wing
How is cultural marxist renew in any way right wing?
@@S.P.Q.R.117 How are they in any way marxist?
@@nickolasblabla They support immigration and lgbt, please tell me how that's right wing
DEI over competence.. what a time to be alive
The energy commissioner is a really bad choice. He is extremely biased towards the wind industry
What is wrong with wind? We dont have enough wind in Europe? 😂
@@JessicaDainese Wind isn't stable. That means the more wind turbines we get, the more do we need something else that can take over -- at very short notice! -- when the wind doesn't blow. That is water reservoirs in places where the geography makes sense (mountains) -- with all the associated environmental problems -- and natural gas, which comes with both environmental problems and geopolitical problems (Russia, Qatar, Libya, Morocco).
The whole package is a lot more expensive than we are usually told in the media.
Using nuclear power instead is a much better choice -- no need for foreign gas from nasty countries, much cheaper, much safer, huge future stability (we have plenty of uranium in Europe + it is super easy to stockpile decades of fuel), essentially zero pollution.
He is also generally known to be... "not the most power consuming light bulb", so to speak. Quite dim, in other words. I want the current Energy Commissioner to continue, even if that results in two Commissioners from Estonia. They are both very qualified for their jobs.
@@peterfireflylund should have stayed friends with Russia and Lybia then. Who ruined Lybia and who blew up Nordstream? Oh yes, our American "friends". You are not telling me how nuclear is safe. Again, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
@@peterfireflylund unfortunately there can't be 2 people from the same country.
Personally I really want a energy commissioner who isn't positive towards unstable energy sources like wind and solar without stable energy like nuclear
With the standing of a Junta.
I don't think you know what a Junta is
@@albevanhanoy Some Swedish food I think.
@@mr.netflix9149 LMAO these 2 comments. For any who dont actually know: a Junta is when the military has control of the government, usually with a small council or a dictator taking charge.
The EU is not your random African country
Let's hope that having birthing people in top positions will change Europeans' lives for the better... Not likely though
F the Eu
Wopke! Lets go
Welcome in the Eurafrican Union.
She is half American working for US interest more than Europe!
We have many of those in Italy too. We really need to get away from the USA.
There is no EU.