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How Robert Habeck envisions the EU’s future

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Published: May 7th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

One EU Commissioner from each member state? Robert Habeck questions this principle.

Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck has questioned the principle of each EU country appointing a commissioner in Brussels. „We will have to find a solution where we pool or countries take turns“, said the Vice-Chancellor at an event in his ministry on Tuesday evening. In addition, qualified majority decisions would also have to be introduced in areas where they do not yet exist. „Otherwise, one country will always have a right of veto – Hungary, for example – and that makes no sense“, said Habeck.

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