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New Commission: Power struggle comes to a head

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Published: November 13th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Iratxe García Pérez, leader of the S&D parliamentary group, is threatening to refuse to approve the new Commission.
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The power struggle in the European Parliament over the new Commission came to a head on Wednesday. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen received the leaders of the EPP, S&D and Renew political groups at the Berlaymont yesterday to calm the waters. The one-and-a-half hour meeting with Manfred Weber, Iratxe García Pérez and Valérie Hayer did not produce any concrete results, according to Parliament afterwards, but they wanted to continue talking to each other.

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