New Secretary General of the EU Parliame • Table.Briefings

The Secretary General of the European Parliament, Klaus Welle, will retire in January. Five applications have been received for the post. But the original process to backfill the vacancy is no longer viable. Instead, a package solution could be used, even if it is not a universally popular one.

After 13 years, the European Parliament will have a new Secretary General next year. The incumbent Klaus Welle, a native of Westphalia with a CDU party membership book, who observers attest great merit for the parliament regardless of party affiliation, has announced his retirement for the beginning of 2023. In the ongoing hard-fought process to fill his post, Parliament President Roberta Metsola and the European Parliament are at risk of being damaged.

New Secretary General of the EU Parliament: five candidates hope to succeed Welle

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