List of Vice Presidents of the EU Commission
The office of Vice President of the EU Commission is less important than the office of EU Commission President . In contrast to the President of the EU Commission, the Vice President has his own department in addition to this task.
The actual tasks of a Vice President, representing the President, are performed by the First Vice President. In the previous Juncker Commission , this was Frans Timmermans .
The fact that a Vice-President takes over his duties in the absence of a President happened in 1999 when Manuel Marin resigned the Santer Commission . Marin was then commissioned to form a new commission, which would remain in office until the Prodi commission took office.
appointment
According to Article 217 (3) of the Treaty of Nice, the appointment of the Vice-Presidents is the responsibility of the President, which he must undertake in agreement with the other members of the College.
In the current commission
In addition to the three executive vice-presidents, Frans Timmermans , Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis, there are five other vice-presidents in the Von der Leyen Commission .
Well-known vice presidents
- Hallstein Commission
- Sicco Mansholt
- Piero Malvestiti
- Robert Marjolin
- Manuel Marin
- Commission Prodi
- Neil Kinnock
- Loyola de Palacio
- Barroso II Commission
- Olli Rehn
- Viviane Reding
Current Vice Presidents
(As of 2019)
| No. | Surname | Department | Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frans Timmermans | European Green Deal | Netherlands |
| 2 | Margrethe Vestager | Competition and digital | Denmark |
| 3 | Valdis Dombrovskis | economy | Latvia |
| 4th | Josep Borrell | High Representative of the EU for Foreign and Security Policy | Spain |
| 5 | Maroš Šefčovič | Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight | Slovakia |
| 6th | Věra Jourová | Values and transparency | Czech Republic |
| 7th | Margaritis Schinas | Migration, Equality and Diversity | Greece |
| 8th | Dubravka Šuica | Democracy and demography | Croatia |
Future of the office
According to the planned treaty for a constitution, the European Union should have received a Foreign Minister who should also have been Vice-President of the Commission.