The College is composed of Commissioners from 27 EU countries.

Together, these 27 members of the College are appointed as the Commission's political leadership for a 5-year term. The President of the Commission assigns responsibilities for specific policy areas to each Commissioner.

The President

Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen is the President of the European Commission.

She has held this position since December 1, 2019, and was re-elected for a second mandate in July 2024. She is the first woman to hold this office.

Her leadership focuses on addressing major challenges such as security, climate change, and competitiveness through joint action1. Before her current role, she served in various positions in the German federal government, including Minister of Defence23.

Executive Vice-Presidents and High Representative

Teresa Ribera

Teresa Ribera is the Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition at the European Commission

Clean, Just and Competitive Transition

Her role is crucial in ensuring Europe meets its goals set out in the European Green Deal, focusing on decarbonisation and industrialisation.

Her responsibilities include:

• Coordinating the Clean Industrial Deal to boost clean technology and investment.
• Implementing EU laws to achieve 2030 climate targets and preparing for post-2030 goals.
• Reducing energy prices and dependencies on fossil fuels while investing in clean energy infrastructure.
• Steering investment for a just and social transition through dedicated funds and tax measures.
• Modernising competition policy to support European companies in innovation and global leadership.

Henna Virkkunen

Henna Virkkunen is the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at the European Commission

Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

Her role involves addressing complex security threats while strengthening the EU's external borders and internal security.

• Digital and Frontier Technologies: Leading efforts to shape a competitive, resilient, and inclusive digital future.
• Artificial Intelligence: Boosting AI innovation and developing an Apply AI Strategy.
• EU Cloud and AI Development Act: Implementing policies to enhance high-performance computing and quantum technologies.
• Digital Networks Act: Promoting secure high-speed broadband.
• Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: Ensuring effective enforcement actions.
• European Data Union Strategy: Presenting strategies for data management and security.
• Media Freedom: Recognizing the unique role of media in democracy and culture.
• Cybersecurity: Tackling challenges with e-commerce platforms and combating unethical techniques online.

Stéphane Séjourné

Stéphane Séjourné is the Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy at the European Commission

Prosperity and Industrial Strategy

His role focuses on creating conditions for European industries and companies to invest, decarbonise, and become more competitive.

• Industrial Decarbonisation: Presenting an Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act to support clean tech in industry.
• Net Zero Industry Act: Leading the implementation to achieve net-zero emissions.
• European Competitiveness Fund: Developing a fund for innovation and technology investments.
• Strategic Sectors: Supporting Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) for strategic sectors and technologies.
• Single Market Strategy: Modernising and deepening the Single Market, including enforcement.
• Support for SMEs: Improving access to finance and simplifying the regulatory environment for small businesses.
• Critical Raw Materials: Setting up an EU Critical Raw Materials Platform and implementing the Critical Raw Materials Act.
• Circular Economy: Presenting a Circular Economy Act to create market demand for secondary materials.

Kaja Kallas

Kaja Kallas is the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission.

High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Vice-President

Her role involves leading a strategic and assertive foreign and security policy to enable the EU to pursue its strategic interests and shape the global system.

• Strengthening Europe's security and defence, including support for Ukraine and building a European Defence Union.
• Developing strategic approaches to relations with neighboring countries and regions, such as the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific.
• Enhancing the EU's capacity to respond to new threats, including cyber and hybrid attacks.
• Forging a modern foreign policy, including a new foreign economic policy and reforming the international rules-based system.

Roxana Mînzatu

Roxana Mînzatu is the Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness at the European Commission.

Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness

Her role is pivotal in strengthening Europe's human capital through various initiatives.

• Social Rights: Leading the work on the European Pillar of Social Rights to tackle skills and labour gaps, focusing on training and education.
• Quality Jobs: Developing a Quality Jobs Roadmap to ensure a just transition for all and delivering a new Pact for European Social Dialogue.
• Skills Development: Working on the Union of Skills, focusing on investment, adult and lifelong learning, vocational education and training, skill retention and recognition.
• Preparedness: Embedding a new culture of preparedness to help people adapt to change and risks.
• European Education Area: Driving a common approach to skills development, learning mobility, quality, and inclusiveness.
• Skills Portability Initiative: Ensuring cross-country skills recognition.
• Talent Pool: Attracting skills matching EU labour market needs.
• Anti-Poverty Strategy: Leading the work on the first-ever EU Anti-Poverty Strategy and contributing to the European Affordable Housing Plan.

Raffaele Fitto

Raffaele Fitto is the Executive Vice-President for Cohesion and Reforms at the European Commission.

Cohesion and Reforms

His role is crucial in ensuring that the EU continues to support reforms and investments that directly contribute to strengthening European growth.

• Recovery and Resilience Plans: Leading the work to deliver on the agreed reforms and investments set out in Member States’ Recovery and Resilience Plans.
• NextGenerationEU: Ensuring the full implementation of NextGenerationEU while working in dialogue with stakeholders and regional and local authorities.
• Cohesion Policy: Designing a strengthened, modernised cohesion and growth policy, working in partnership with national, regional, and local authorities.
• Regional Development: Supporting community needs and tackling regional disparities so that all citizens have an effective right to stay in the place they call home.
• Sustainable Mobility and Tourism: Guiding the work on sustainable mobility and tourism.
• Fisheries and Blue Economy: Ensuring that the EU’s fisheries sector and wider blue economy become more resilient, sustainable, and competitive.

Commissioners

Maroš Šefčovič

Maroš Šefčovič is the European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency.

Trade and Economic Security

Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency

His role is pivotal in shaping the EU's trade policies and ensuring transparency and effective interinstitutional relations.

• Free and Fair Trade Policy: Designing and implementing policies to enhance Europe's competitiveness, security, and sustainability.
• Customs System: Developing a modern customs system to protect citizens and support businesses.
• Global Trade Leadership: Continuing Europe's leadership in rules-based trade, including through a reformed World Trade Organization.
• Trade Negotiations: Concluding ongoing trade negotiations, especially with Latin America and the Indo-Pacific.
• Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships: Bolstering EU competitiveness and diversifying supply chains.
• Economic Security Doctrine: Outlining strategic use of economic tools to protect the EU economy.
• Framework Agreement Revision: Leading the revision of the Framework Agreement to strengthen dialogue between the Commission and the European Parliament.
• Relations with the Council: Strengthening the Commission's relations with the Council and representing the Commission at the General Affairs Council.
• Ethical Conduct Standards: Developing common minimum standards for ethical conduct across EU institutions.
• Transparency Register: Coordinating the review of the Interinstitutional Agreement on the Transparency Register.

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Economy and Productivity

Implementation and Simplification

• Fiscal Rules: Ensuring consistent implementation of fiscal rules under the Stability and Growth Pact across Member States.
• NextGenerationEU: Leading the implementation of NextGenerationEU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
• European Semester: Ensuring the European Semester supports competitiveness, sustainability, and social fairness.
• Competitiveness Goals: Developing tools to turn EU competitiveness goals into coordinated national policies.
• European Investment Fund: Enhancing its role to increase financing for European companies.
• Digital Euro: Working on the development and strengthening of the digital euro.
• Reviewing EU Law: Leading efforts to review EU law and eliminate overlaps and contradictions.
• Reducing Administrative Burden: Working to reduce the administrative and reporting burden for people and companies.
• Consultation Approach: Implementing a new consultation approach to identify hurdles faced by stakeholders when implementing EU rules.
• Simplifying Legislation: Leading negotiations on a renewed agreement between EU institutions to simplify existing legislation and improve the way new laws are made.
• Better Law-Making: Strengthening compliance with the Commission’s standards for better law-making.

Dubravka Šuica

Dubravka Šuica is the European Commissioner for the Mediterranean.

Mediterranean

Her role involves creating a common and people-centred agenda and developing partnerships with the Mediterranean region and countries across the Southern Neighbourhood based on common values and dialogue.

• New Pact for the Mediterranean: Addressing shared challenges and investing in a common future.
• Trans-Mediterranean Energy and Clean Tech Cooperation Initiative: Increasing renewable energy trading and boosting clean tech manufacturing in the region.
• Migration Policy: Working with regional partners on border controls, fighting smugglers, and respecting human rights.
• Security: Collaborating on security, fighting organised crime, and terrorism.
• Demography Toolbox: Helping Member States address demographic challenges.
• Labour Market Participation: Increasing participation by women, young people, and other underrepresented groups.

Olivér Várhelyi

Olivér Várhelyi is the European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare.

Health and Animal Welfare

His role is crucial in completing the European Health Union and promoting the One Health approach, which recognizes the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and the environment.

• Critical Medicines Act: Proposing this act to address severe shortages of medicines and medical devices and reduce dependencies.
• EU Pharmaceutical Legislation: Leading efforts to reform EU pharmaceutical legislation.
• European Biotech Act: Boosting innovation in health technology assessments, clinical trials, and more.
• Preventive Health: Advancing the European Beating Cancer Plan and revising tobacco legislation.
• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Continuing the fight against AMR and collaborating with Member States to meet the 2030 targets.
• Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Preparing a European action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers.
• European Health Data Space: Completing this space and making proposals to expand genome sequencing capabilities.
• Animal Welfare: Modernizing rules on animal welfare, including regulating the import of exotic animals.
• Food Waste and Safety: Proposing initiatives to prevent and reduce food waste and enforcing food safety standards.

Wopke Hoekstra

Wopke Hoekstra is the European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth.

Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth

His role is crucial in ensuring the EU meets its climate commitments in a fair and economically supportive manner.

• Climate Commitments: Overseeing the implementation of the climate and energy framework for 2030 and proposing to enshrine a 90% emission-reduction target for 2040 in the European Climate Law.
• Clean Industrial Deal: Contributing to the development of the Clean Industrial Deal and the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act.
• Innovation Fund: Supporting the implementation of the Innovation Fund to mobilise investment in clean technologies.
• CO2 Market: Accelerating the build-up of a Single Market for CO2 and working on CO2 transport and storage.
• Climate Diplomacy: Strengthening Europe’s climate diplomacy and its leading role in international negotiations.
• Climate Adaptation: Leading the work on a European Climate Adaptation Plan to support Member States in their preparedness for climate change impacts.
• Social and Just Transition: Strengthening the framework for a social and just transition.
• Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Contributing to a framework to further reduce and phase out the use of fossil fuel subsidies.
• Climate Disinformation: Working to counter the growing trend of climate disinformation.

Andrius Kubilius

Andrius Kubilius is the European Commissioner for Defence and Space.

Defence and Space

His role involves working closely with the High Representative and Member States to enhance European defence capabilities and manage the EU's space portfolio.

• European Defence: Preparing the White Paper on the Future of European Defence to frame a new approach and identify investment needs.
• Military Mobility: Strengthening military mobility by removing barriers and creating a Single Market for Defence products and services.
• European Defence Industrial Strategy: Overseeing its implementation and reinforcing the European Defence Fund.
• Cyber and Hybrid Attacks: Addressing vulnerabilities and building resilience against cyber and hybrid attacks.
• EU-NATO Partnership: Contributing to the strengthening of the EU-NATO partnership.
• EU Space Law: Leading the work on a future proposal for an EU Space Law and a Space Data Economy Strategy.
• Space Industry: Fostering a strong and innovative space industry.
• Space Strategy for Security and Defence: Ensuring the implementation of the EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence.

Marta Kos

Marta Kos is the European Commissioner for Enlargement.

Enlargement

She plays a crucial role in driving the European Union's enlargement process forward, focusing on developing relations with countries in regions like the Western Balkans, Ukraine, and Moldova. Her responsibilities include supporting candidate countries in their path to join the EU by promoting structural reforms, respect for the rule of law, and fundamental values.

Kos has a diverse background as a diplomat and politician. Before her current role, she served as Slovenia's ambassador to Germany and Switzerland. She also held various positions in the Slovenian government and was involved in the Freedom Movement party.

Jozef Síkela

Jozef Síkela is the European Commissioner for International Partnerships.

International Partnerships

In this role, he focuses on building long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with international partners to enhance the EU's prosperity, resilience, and security. His responsibilities include:

• Promoting the Global Gateway programme, which aims to accelerate infrastructure investment and build the EU's global profile.
• Strengthening partnerships with regions such as Africa, Central Asia, Asia and the Indo-Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
• Supporting the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in international cooperation and development policies.
• Síkela, who hails from the Czech Republic, has a background in banking and crisis management. He joined the European Commission in December 2024.

Costas Kadis

Costas Kadis is the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans.

Fisheries and Oceans

His role involves developing and implementing a long-term vision for a resilient, competitive, and sustainable European fisheries and aquaculture sector to help secure Europe’s food sovereignty.

• Common Fisheries Policy: Implementing and evaluating its economic, environmental, and social dimensions.
• Vision for 2040: Preparing a broader vision for the fisheries sector.
• Job Creation: Supporting job creation in the fisheries sector.
• Global Competition: Protecting the European fisheries chain from unfair global competition.
• Sustainable Fisheries Partnerships: Pursuing Europe’s zero-tolerance approach to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
• European Oceans Pact: Ensuring coherence across all policy areas linked to the oceans.
• Maritime Spatial Planning: Strengthening the EU’s approach to optimise the different uses of the sea.
• Ocean Research and Innovation: Developing an EU Ocean Research and Innovation Strategy.

Maria Luís Albuquerque

Maria Luís Albuquerque is the European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union.

Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union

• European Savings and Investments Union: Developing this union to leverage private savings in support of the EU’s objectives.
• Regulatory Framework: Reviewing and ensuring it supports European companies and start-ups in financing their expansion.
• Sustainable Finance: Implementing the sustainable finance framework and maintaining the EU's global leadership in this area.
• Banking Union: Further developing the Banking Union and advancing the European Deposit Insurance Scheme.
• Consumer Protection: Ensuring EU rules offer appropriate protection for consumers and retail investors.
• Digital Finance: Improving digital finance and payments to support new technologies.
• Anti-Money Laundering: Implementing and enforcing measures to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism.

Hadja Lahbib

Hadja Lahbib is the European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management.

Equality

The EU places a strong emphasis on equality, ensuring non-discrimination across various grounds such as race, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation. Commissioner Lahbib's work includes:

• Promoting gender equality and addressing disparities in various sectors.
• Implementing policies to combat discrimination and ensure equal opportunities for all.
• Developing a Roadmap for Women’s Rights and a new Gender Equality Strategy.
• Proposing a renewed LGBTIQ Equality Strategy to address hate-motivated harassment and violence.
• Presenting a new Anti-Racism Strategy and implementing the EU Strategic Framework for Roma equality.

Preparedness and Crisis Management

This portfolio focuses on enhancing the EU's ability to respond to crises effectively. Key initiatives include:

• Developing the EU Preparedness Union Strategy to better anticipate, prevent, and manage crises.
• Strengthening the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), which coordinates disaster response efforts across member states.
• Ensuring health emergency preparedness through strategic foresight and resource allocation.
• Leading the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) and reinforcing rescEU.

Magnus Brunner

Magnus Brunner is the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration.

Internal Affairs and Migration

His role is crucial in strengthening Europe's internal security and managing migration effectively.

• European Internal Security Strategy: Designing and implementing a new strategy to address all threats, both online and offline.
• Fight Against Crime: Leading efforts against serious and organised crime, including drug trafficking, firearms, and cybercrime.
• Child Protection: Enhancing measures to protect children against sexual abuse.
• Counter-Terrorism: Developing a new Counter-Terrorism Agenda to address emerging threats.
• Infrastructure Security: Ensuring the security and resilience of critical physical and digital infrastructure.
• Europol: Transforming Europol into a truly operational police agency.
• Pact on Migration and Asylum: Overseeing the implementation of this pact and preparing the first five-year European Asylum and Migration Management Strategy.
• Return of Irregular Migrants: Developing a modern and dignified approach to the return of irregular migrants.
• Fight Against Smuggling: Leading efforts to combat smugglers and people traffickers.
• Legal Migration: Working on policies to attract skilled migrants and create legal pathways for refugees.

Jessika Roswall

Jessika Roswall is the European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience, and a Competitive Circular Economy.

Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy

Her role is essential in ensuring the EU meets its environmental goals, particularly those outlined in the European Green Deal.

• Circular Economy: Leading the development of a Circular Economy Act to create market demand for secondary materials and establish a single market for waste.
• CWater Resilience: Enhancing water resilience across the EU, addressing issues such as water scarcity and quality.
• CEnvironmental Protection: Ensuring the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems.
• CSustainable Development: Promoting sustainable development practices and integrating environmental considerations into other policy areas.
• CZero-Pollution Ambition: Taking forward the EU's zero-pollution ambition and working on a new chemicals industry package.
• CClimate Adaptation: Contributing to the new Climate Adaptation Plan and the Vision for Agriculture and Food.

Piotr Serafin

Piotr Serafin is the European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration.

Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration

His role is crucial in managing the EU's financial resources and ensuring transparency and accountability.

• EU Budget: Developing a modern and reinforced EU budget, transitioning from a programme-based to a policy-based budget.
• European Competitiveness Fund: Establishing a fund to support strategic sectors critical to EU competitiveness.
• New Own Resources: Introducing new sources of revenue for the EU.
• Anti-Fraud Measures: Leading efforts to protect the EU budget from fraud, including coordinating with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
• Public Administration: Modernising the European Commission’s operations and HR processes to ensure efficiency and inclusivity.

Dan Jørgensen

Dan Jørgensen is the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing.

Energy and Housing

His role is crucial in addressing energy prices, clean energy production, and housing supply issues across the EU.

• Affordable Energy Prices: Implementing an action plan to reduce energy costs for households and businesses.
• Clean Energy Production: Boosting the roll-out of renewable energy and energy storage.
• Energy Infrastructure: Upgrading and expanding grid infrastructure to ensure a resilient and secure energy system.
• REPowerEU: Ensuring the full implementation of REPowerEU to end Russian energy imports.
• Carbon Capture and Storage: Encouraging the use of carbon capture and storage technologies.
• Affordable Housing Plan: Developing the first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan.
• Housing Construction Strategy: Supporting housing supply through a European Strategy for Housing Construction.
• Investment Platform: Establishing a pan-European investment platform for affordable and sustainable housing.
• Short-term Rentals: Tackling systemic issues with short-term accommodation rentals.

Ekaterina Zaharieva

Ekaterina Zaharieva is the European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation.

Startups, Research and Innovation

Her role is pivotal in driving the EU's ambition to place research, innovation, science, and technology at the center of its economy.

• European Innovation Council: Expanding the council to foster investment and cooperation.
• European Research Area Act: Guaranteeing the free movement of researchers, scientific knowledge, and technology.
• European Research Infrastructure: Developing a long-term strategy to boost infrastructure.
• European Innovation Act: Streamlining the regulatory framework and facilitating access to venture capital.
• Support for Startups: Creating a network of Trusted Investors to support EU start-ups and scale-ups.
• Life Sciences Strategy: Unlocking high-value technologies through a new strategy.
• Advanced Materials Act: Supporting research and innovation from manufacturing to deployment.
• Artificial Intelligence: Increasing AI uptake by European scientists and setting up a European AI Research Council.
• Funding Programs: Implementing and overseeing funding from EU research and innovation programs like Horizon Europe.

Michael McGrath

Michael McGrath is the European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.

Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection

His role is crucial in upholding the core values and principles that underpin the European Union.

• Democracy: Implementing the European Democracy Shield to combat disinformation and foreign interference, and ensuring the fairness and integrity of elections.
• Justice: Strengthening judicial cooperation, enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation, and developing a Digital Fairness Act to protect consumers.
• Rule of Law: Leading the Rule of Law Report, ensuring effective enforcement, and supporting the application of the Article 7 Mechanism.
• Consumer Protection: Preparing the next Consumer Agenda 2025-2030, tackling unethical commercial practices, and ensuring product safety.

Apostolos Tzitzikostas

Apostolos Tzitzikostas is the European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism.

Sustainable Transport and Tourism

His role focuses on making European transport more competitive, sustainable, and resilient to future shocks, while ensuring it is safe, accessible, and affordable for all EU citizens.

• Trans-European Transport Network: Ensuring the completion of missing parts by 2030 and strengthening the single market for transport services.
• Tourism Sector: Promoting a resilient and competitive tourism sector in line with the EU Agenda for Tourism 2030.
• High-Speed Rail Network: Developing an ambitious plan to connect EU capitals.
• Digital Booking and Ticketing: Implementing a Single Digital Booking and Ticketing Regulation to simplify travel and protect passenger rights.
• Sustainable Transport Investment: Scaling up investments to decarbonise the sector, including electrification of road transport and use of cutting-edge technologies.
• Maritime Strategy: Developing a new industrial maritime strategy and a strategy for EU ports focusing on security and competitiveness.
• Cycling Promotion: Following up on the European Declaration on Cycling and publishing progress reports.
• Social Mobility: Strengthening the social dimension of mobility, ensuring quality jobs, tackling transport poverty, and improving access in rural areas.

Christophe Hansen

Christophe Hansen is the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food.

Agriculture and Food

His role focuses on strengthening the competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability of the agricultural sector.

• Vision for Agriculture and Food: Developing a long-term strategy to ensure the competitiveness and sustainability of the EU's farming and food sectors.
• Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): Ensuring the CAP is fit for purpose, providing targeted support to farmers, and promoting positive environmental and societal outcomes.
• Investment and Innovation: Fostering investment and innovation in the agri-food sector to ensure farmers have fair incomes and are protected against unfair trading practices.
• Generational Renewal: Developing strategies to support family farms and young farmers in accessing capital.
• Food Sovereignty: Strengthening Europe's food sovereignty and addressing challenges facing rural areas.

Glenn Micallef

Glenn Micallef is the European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport.

Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport

His role involves supporting young people and fostering connections through cultural heritage and sport.

• Intergenerational Fairness: Developing strategies to ensure decisions made today do not harm future generations.
• Youth Engagement: Coordinating Youth Policy Dialogues and setting up the President’s Youth Advisory Board to ensure young voices shape Europe’s future.
• Culture: Creating a new Culture Compass to improve working conditions for artists and cultural professionals.
• Sport: Strengthening the European Sport Model and promoting physical activity for better health.
• Cyberbullying: Implementing an action plan against cyberbullying and advancing the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child.

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