The European Union is due to relaunch its powerful executive arm under the new l...
BRUSSELS - The European Union is due to relaunch its powerful executive arm under the new leadership of the German conservative Ursula von der Leyen from Dec. 1 but faces legal risks after Britain refused to name its representative for the European Commission.
The Commission has wide-ranging powers that include proposing policies on everything from migration to climate change, policing member states’ budgets and negotiating global trade deals. It is normally comprised of one representative from each of the EU’s 28 member states. While there may be few policy proposals before the new Brexit date of Jan. 31, the divorce has already been delayed three times from an original date last March amid bitter infighting in Britain over how and even whether to leave the EU.
The Commission also acts as the EU’s competition watchdog and any anti-trust or merger decisions it takes during that time could also end up in court on the grounds that the executive had been established on a flawed basis.Britain has until the end of Nov. 22 to reply to the outgoing Commission on the legal case - a so-called infringement procedure - initiated against it by Brussels.
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