Like all commissioners-designate, Ribera will now face a confirmation hearing in the European Parliament.
Ribera has twice served as environment minister in Spain. In her second stint, under current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, she took on the broader role of minister of the ecological transition and rose to be a deputy prime minister in his government.
In that job, Ribera oversaw the closure of Spain’s coal industry, negotiated the phase out of nuclear power by 2035, volunteered Madrid to host the 2019 U.N. climate talks after Chile dropped out at the last minute and won a carveout for Spain and Portugal from the EU’s electricity market rules during the gas crisis.
Outside her ministerial work, Ribera has focused on climate change policy for most of her career — as a civil servant, climate change negotiator and the director of the Paris-based think tank the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.
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Nine of the 11 EU members from emerging Europe will be very happy with the posts they managed to procure in the new European Commission. Hungary a
Hansen’s remit would cover food security — a key issue addressed in a strategic farming dialogue that von der Leyen has held this year that she wants to
Having made it through the final hurdles of horse-trading with capitals around the European