Thierry Breton in the hot seat for start of his #EPHearings2019. First early comparison with Goulard: his water bottle ain't up to much ๐ 
Breton starts his opening statement in English, switches to German, and will most likely do the rest in French. Anything Goulard can do...
Breton's early strategy to win over MEPs: bamboozle them with some tech wonkery. Not 5G but "6g" he says. Not cloud technology, but the "post-cloud". Someone should tell him to fix the WiFi in the parliament
Hope Goulard's not watching. Les Republicains leader @fxbellamy - who led the charge against her - starts off Breton grilling telling him how important he will be and a fawning question on how Breton plans to "breathe life" into EU businesses...๐คข
@fxbellamy @ThierryBreton The three main political groups land soft punches on Breton, but the @GreensEFA come out blazing with a handy diagram showing @ThierryBreton all his possible conflicts of interest
@fxbellamy @ThierryBreton @GreensEFA By my maths, Breton needs around 77/78 votes to pass his hearing today (a two-thirds majority of combined committees). Even with support of eurosceptic @ecrgroup or Salvini's @IDParty_, he will need votes of some -not all - socialists (they carry 24 votes)
**will only go to a vote if the coordinators of the groups can't reach consensus on his whether to give him the green light
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