Only three of the 26 candidates for EU commissioners passed the assets test, and Olivier Varhelyi is one of them.

Of the 26 candidates for European Commission Commissioner, only three were able to pass the assets test without difficulty. Oliver Varheli And belongs to the latter. The European Parliament's Legal Committee (JURI) is out of the Hungarian language at its Thursday meeting Piotr Serafin Polish and Woepke Hoekstra In the case of the Dutch candidate, he has clearly demonstrated that there is no conflict of interest. the POLITICO He wrote this based on an email circulated by the Green Caucus in the European Parliament, as well as statements by three MPs who were aware of what happened at the meeting.

At the Joint Arbitration Committee (JURI) meeting, where the asset declarations of the twenty-six candidates for Commission Commissioners were discussed in alphabetical order by name, for three and a half hours, the sharp contradictions between the representative groups of the European Parliament quickly came to the fore.

According to one representative, several factions clashed with each other in the “confusing” meeting.

One leaker described Hoekstra as “an example to follow” in disclosing information that will be examined. However, in the press conference following the meeting, the spokesman for the left faction of the Socialists and Democrats also indicated that they believed he should disclose the clients he had worked for during his previous work as an employee of the consulting firm McKinsey.

As a first part of the process of vetting candidates for the position of Commissioner, members of the European Parliament's Legal Committee carry out a background check. They have the right to reject candidates if they see a conflict of interest in their case. The next step will be the hearing of the parliamentary committees responsible for the region, which will be held between 4 and 12 November.

Finally, the JURI jury accepted by a simple majority that general questions should be asked of the 23 candidates for the committee. In this way, they can provide more information about their financial situation,

Because many declaration forms are left blank.

According to the rules, commissioners fill in the data themselves and can choose which parts to answer. On paper, candidates must disclose all assets worth more than €10,000, and representatives at the meeting did not find it “credible” that only a few candidates indicated they had such assets.

As we wrote later Peter Magyar and Andras Kolja He will also be able to decide on the fate of Oliver Varheli, who is preparing to become health commissioner. In addition to the fact that Varheli played a relatively important role in the previous European Commission, but now he has obtained one of the weakest positions, and even more so because of the way we carried out our task in the previous session.