Published: September 24th, 2024,
Last updated: September 26th, 2024

The first question that needs to be clarified in the area of automotive regulation is: Who is responsible? The overlaps in the portfolios that Ursula von der Leyen wants to define with the structure of her new Commission are already keeping the lobby departments of companies and associations busy. One example: There is to be a transport commissioner who is to draw up an action plan for the European car industry based on the Draghi report. But above the future Transport Commissioner, Apostolos Tzitzikostas has been proposed (see Heads in this issue), there is still the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms – the Italian Raffaele Fitto has been appointed.