{"id":3514,"date":"2018-06-11T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:04:46","slug":"kurz-demands-a-smaller-european-commissioners-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/kurz-demands-a-smaller-european-commissioners-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurz demands a smaller European Commissioners&#8217; College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">According to the standpoint of the <strong>Austrian<\/strong> Federal Chancellor <em>Sebastian Kurz<\/em> it is necessary to diminish the number of the European Commissioners, namely from the existing 28 (one from each\u00a0 EU\u00a0 country member) to only 18 Commissioners. In order to ensure the equal representation of each contry\u00a0 member, it is necessary that the election of the Commissioners is based on the system of rotation. In such way it is possible to make financial savings, additionally the Commission would be \u00bbmore efective and focused.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Also the German Chancellor <em>Angela Merkel<\/em> and the Frenh President <em>Emmanuel Macron<\/em> are advocats of a smaller European Commission. In connection with the on going negotiations about the Euroepan budget 2021- 2027 Kurz demands &#8211; on the contrary with the ideas of the Commission to increase the budget to 1,1 % of the GDP- that it does not exceed the actually valid 1%.<\/p>\n<p>As a new saving measure the <strong>Austrian<\/strong> Chancellor proposes, that the double seat of the European parliament in Bruxelles and Strasbourg is organized at only one location.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sk2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sk2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sk2.jpg 803w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sk2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sk2-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the standpoint of the Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz it is necessary to diminish the number of the European Commissioners, namely from the existing 28 (one from each\u00a0 EU\u00a0 country member) to only 18 Commissioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}