Are the Socialists losing another commissioner? First, Frans Timmermans, the leading candidate of the Socialist party family PES in 2019 and Executive Vice-President of the Commission, ran for the hills because he still wants to become Prime Minister in the Netherlands. Moved up and promoted from simple Vice-President to Executive Vice-President was then recently Maroš Šefčovič. With the promotion of the Slovak, who has been a member of the Commission since 2009 and enjoys a good reputation across the camps, all three party families of the „von der Leyen coalition“ in the College once again had one of the highest-ranking Commissioners each. Valdis Dombrovskis is the „executive“ of the Christian Democratic EPP, Margrethe Vestager that of the Liberals, and Šefčovič precisely that of the Socialists.