Duris Nicholsonova becomes head of EP employment and social affairs committee

Slovak SaS MEP Lucia Duris Nicholsonova of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) faction was elected head of the EP Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) on Thursday. Thirty-eight of the 55 members of the committee voted in her favour, with 14 against and three abstentions. Former Polish prime minister and MEP Beata Szydlova was originally nominated for the post, but she paid the price for the fact that liberal faction Renew Europe Group decided to boycott candidates for committee chairs and vice-chairs from populist parties and from countries towards which the EU has reservations due to infringements of the principles of the rule of law.