“Serafin from Poland comes out of the shadows to execute the most hard task in the EU”, writes Polish budget commissioner and “right hand” Donald Tusk in the EU “Politico”. The average points out that the fresh Commissioner for the Budget will gotta usage all his skills gained while working in the EU institutions for Donald Tusk.
Peter Serafin will be liable for negotiations on a central budget of EUR 1.2 trillion. Earlier, most of his professional career was to spend "on making backstage deals for his political masters". It is to be known for its patience and “power of persuasion”, although it is likely to deficiency “political influence”.
The fresh budget Commissioner was Donald Tusk's "right hand" erstwhile he served as president of the European Council. According to the Brussels Eurocrats, Seraphin is “an excellent broker of power and an undamaged accountant.” He has been well aware of the EU's functioning by working in Brussels for over a decade.
Polish politicians received 1 of the most hard tasks in the EC: negotiating the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the period 2028-2034. He is to be “the right man for this work” due to the fact that “he knows things, he knows sensitivity, he is respected in the European Council and he has direct contact with Tuski, of which he is well aware [European Commission Ursula] von der Leyen”.
In Brussels, Seraphin is known primarily as the head of the Tusk Cabinet during the five-year word of president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He's a fan of cooking and horseback riding. He had previously been an advisor to Janusz Lewandowski, the Commissioner for Budget, who said he was a "computer" due to his ability to process numbers in real time.
In the second half of 2025, the fresh Commissioner is expected to present a way of spending money in the EU in the coming years. The plan will should be unanimously approved by the States before the start of 2028.
The head of the EC, Von der Leyen, wants to make the transfer of finance to poorer regions subject to certain conditions, in exchange for money, to force certain reforms on countries. There is besides a proposal that all funds should be pooled in 1 EU country, which includes all EU countries, which is causing discontent to the countries of South and east Europe, including Poland, presently receiving most of the EUR 400 billion from the alleged EU cohesion funds. Warsaw hopes that Serafin will not let cuts and will weaken von der Leyen's ideas, with which he is to stay in good relations.
The Polish authoritative has already been praised for the efficient conduct of Council meetings and the ability to keep EU unity in delicate issues, e.g. on extending sanctions against Russia.
In 2023, Serafin became Polish ambassador to the EU, although his nomination was not approved by president Andrzej Duda.
Born in Sułęcin, a lawyer and economist, he served as Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration and undersecretary of State in the Ministry of abroad Affairs in 2010. From 2012 to 2014, he was already Secretary of State in this resort, From 2014 to 2019, he served as Head of Cabinet of president of the European Council Donald Tusk. From 2020 to 2023, he was manager of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU liable for transport, telecommunications and energy, and on 13 December 2023 took the lead of the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels in the rank of minister of power.
13 August 2024. Piotr Serafin was announced as a candidate for the position of Commissioner in the recently created European Commission and was accepted in September.
Source: Politico.eu, pl.wikipedia.org
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