Message to Macron
Schmit, who holds the fee’s jobs and social rights portfolio, additionally criticized von der Leyen’s celebration, the EPP, which is about to return first within the election.
He attacked the EPP for continuously complaining about an huge of regulations on the EU stage regardless of having performed a immense function making them.
“You govern for 20 years, you have the [Commission] presidency and the biggest group at the parliament, and then you discover that there is too much regulation,” he mentioned. “There has been 20 years of EPP presidency. It seems to me that they let [over-regulation] happen, and now they suddenly discover it, they make it their first priority and they try to put the problem on us.”
However the socialist commissioner additionally had some complaint for French President Emmanuel Macron’s name for a “regulatory break” on EU environmental regulations.
“I am a bit confused because there was a sort of idea, shared by the EPP, that we now need to slow down the pace, we need a regulatory break. If that’s the case, there’s a fundamental difference [of views with the French government],” Schmit mentioned, including he used to be taking a look ahead to listening to extra from French PM Gabriel Attal on France’s place on inexperienced information.
