Why stop at climate? Let’s toss in economic transformation and competition as well.
It’s an approach the EU has never tried before, making Teresa Ribera a fascinating test case as she glides toward becoming one of the EU’s most powerful commissioners of all time.
Given her climate-heavy background, Ribera was long expected to get a post running the EU’s grand plan to hit net zero by 2050.
But the EU’s top executive, Ursula von der Leyen, had bigger plans for Ribera. She wants the ex-Spanish official to both police companies that get too big and help smaller companies get bigger — all while growing new industries and cutting industrial emissions.
Whether Ribera can balance all these, ahem, competing impulses (see what we did there?) is the main question looming over her hearing.
We’ll bring you all the live action starting at 6:30 p.m. CET on Nov. 12.
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P.S.: If you want to follow more of the action from the hearings, our reporters will be bringing you blow-by-blow updates from all 26 commissioner interviews here.
