Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee
On 18th July Slovakian Lucia Duris Nicholsonova, of the European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) was elected Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) of the European Parliament. The Committee had not yet elected its chair after the rejection of the candidature of former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, also of the ECR group.
The Vice-Chairs of the EMPL Committee have also been appointed: Vilija Blinkeviciute (Lithuania, S&D), Sandra Pereira (Portugal, GUE/NGL), Tomas Zdechovsky (Czech Republic, EPP) and Katrin Langensiepen (Germany, Greens/EFA).