Portfolio: Commissioner for health
Why: Tomaž Vesel, Slovenia’s pick to be its European commissioner, withdrew his candidacy on Friday following pressure from von der Leyen to provide woman nominees. The portfolio for Slovenia will depend on the candidate it puts forward to replace him. Health could be one of the options, as could crisis management and humanitarian aid.
Jessika Roswall (Sweden)
Portfolio: Commissioner for internal market
Why: While Roswall is also rumored to get home affairs, it seems unlikely that Sweden will get another run at that portfolio after commissioner Ylva Johansson held it in von der Leyen’s first term. Stockholm has been eying an economic portfolio and is set to be rewarded for sending a competent female candidate to Brussels. A downside to her clinching the important internal market portfolio could be the Swedish stance toward China, as it is seen as hawkish.
Barbara Moens, Max Griera, Jacopo Barigazzi, Kathryn Carlson, Gregorio Sorgi, Aitor Hernández-Morales, Eddy Wax, Karl Mathiesen, Koen Verhelst, Pieter Haeck, Paula Andres Richart, Camille Gijs, Stuart Lau, Tommaso Lecca and Aoife White contributed reporting.
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