In Strasbourg, European Union lawmakers are electing a new team of commissioners. The 26 candidates have already been vetted and will take the helm of the EU's departments for 5 years. DW looks at some of the key positions.
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00:00One of the Commission's most prominent posts, Foreign Policy Chief, will go to the former Estonian Prime Minister Kaija Kallas,
00:07representing the liberal Renew Europe group.
00:10Kallas is an outspoken Russia critic and shall be the EU's first top diplomat from a former communist Eastern European country.
00:19Former Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius from the conservative EPP will be the first ever Commissioner for Defence.
00:27The post aims to bolster the EU's defence industry by getting member states to spend more and to procure weapons jointly.
00:36Italy's Raffaele Fito of the hard-right
00:39ECR group will become the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms and the first far-right
00:44politician to secure one of the Commission's six vice-president posts.
00:48The portfolio includes the management of a third of the EU's budget, which is designated for underdeveloped areas of the bloc.
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