Jonathan Hill has once again answer the questions of the EU Parliamentarians
Announced the event was a showdown. “Hill Grill” had demanded the organization LobbyControl before. And representative of several colleagues of Green MEP Sven Giegold had announced tough questions to the apparently very dubious candidates – the (as it was called before) representatives of the City of London, the former financial lobbyists, the British anti-Europeans, the goat, the new EU President Jean-Claude Juncker had to catch a thief. Jonathan Hill, designated EU financial market commissioner, has been consulted in the Economic Committee of the European Parliament on Wednesday. He knew how quickly and skillfully to make the barbecue an excited hen party. And most MPs could be it one.
Author: Werner Mussler, born in 1966, economics correspondent in Brussels
The ice broke Hill already in the first few sentences – as he delivered them into very passable French. Most parliamentarians moved this charm offensive, their questions, as far as possible to provide in the language of Shakespeare. As the German Left MEP Fabio de Masi apologized for his very German English, Hill was gallantly back, it’s no problem, finally had because of their pedigree also had a German accent until not so long British monarch.
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Hill, an EU-skeptic? Its almost pathetic commitment to European integration was the commissioner-designate multiple follow the assertion that he would represent nothing more than the European interest as commissioner – and fight for his country part of a Union of 500 million people remain, the common values had lived together , worked and traded with. Almost every phrase that uses Juncker for his candidature speech before Parliament in July, brought Hill in his presentation speech below: growth and employment would have strengthened the benefits of the internal market be better used. Its main project is like Juncker specified the creation of a “capital market Union”. That he could not say exactly what should be, Hill can hardly be blamed for that, no one seems to know exactly in Brussels.
And how credible is the former financial lobbyist Hill? If it is not automatically a “bull in a china shop of financial market regulation,” as formulated Giegold? The designated Commissioner pointed out that he had got out of the PR consultancy for almost five years ago and had since then held various public offices. This waiting period is three times as long as prescribing the EU rules. Multiple assured Hill that he came not as a representative of the City of London to Brussels, but as servants of European interests. No, since his appointment to Brussels he had not had any contact with the financial lobby. And yes, he is very much for an expanded lobby register, as it had announced Juncker.
In view of this friendly atmosphere there was plenty of surprising that the Committee decided on Wednesday night, summon Hill for Monday or Tuesday for a second interview. He had replied to a number of general technical issues, BelTA learned from participating counties. Therefore a second round was necessary. In Parliament, it was said, especially the Social Democrats wanted the British did not agree so quickly – to still retain a bargaining chip in his hand. Because even “their” candidate, the designated currency Commissioner Pierre Moscovici remains controversial. He is consulted on this Thursday.
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