The EU loses its climate chief

Frans Timmermans will leave Brussels. Even though the future of the Green Deal chief had been the subject of speculation for months, it was the news of the day in EU circles. The Commission Vice-President plans to become Prime Minister for the new red-green alliance in the Netherlands.

„This morning I told the Labour and Green Left parties that I would love to be a candidate to lead them in the next elections,“ Frans Timmermans said Thursday. This makes official what had been rumored since the end of last year and had become concrete since the resignation of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte two weeks ago. Timmermans is turning his back on Brussels and wants to succeed Rutte.

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