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Juanma Moreno will chair the European Committee of the Regions in the next term

by AI | 28.Jan 2025 | Europe in brief AI

The popular group and the socialist group share the temporary representation of the mandate of this body, which in the case of the socialists will fall to the Hungarian Kata Tutto, mayor of Budapest.

File photo of the President of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, speaking to the media in Brussels. EFE/ Pablo Garrigós

Seville (Spain) – The European People’s Party group will propose next Friday that the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, chair the European Committee of the Regions in the new term, which will position this community “at the highest level” in European institutions, according to the spokesperson for the Andalusian government, Carolina España.

At the press conference after the Council of Government meeting, España announced this Tuesday that the proposal from Andalusia and President Moreno to chair the European Committee of the Regions represents a “new step to provide prestige and influence” to this community, something that “has never happened before.”

The Popular and Socialist groups share the temporary representation of this body’s mandate, which in the case of the Socialists will fall to the Hungarian Kata Tutto, the mayor of Budapest, so the next president proposed by the PP will be the head of the Andalusian Executive, Juanma Moreno, who currently holds the Vice Presidency.

España has indicated that this Presidency will allow “to position” Andalusia “at the highest level” of the institutions and will make this community “the voice” of the regions before the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of Europe once its term begins.

The vote will take place in February, and it will be the Popular and Socialist groups who will agree on which region will chair this body for the first two and a half years and which one the last two and a half years, according to España.

“This is a giant step for Andalusia,” said the spokesperson for the Andalusian government, who added that this presidency will be a great step for the “south of Europe” and will provide this community with “an unprecedented level of European representation.”

España, who recalled that the president of the Junta is currently the vice president of the European Committee of the Regions, a body in which, according to the spokesperson for the Andalusian government, Moreno “has always believed” and has done “constant” work on issues such as climate law or the opinion on depopulation. (January 28)