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The European Commission will probably stay in the saddle after the two no-confidence votes pencilled in at the European Parliament on Thursday — one proposed by the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) group and the other by The Left.
However, the outcome of the votes could reveal just how widespread discontent with Ursula von der Leyen is among MEPs.
Toppling the European Commission is a goal that is extremely difficult to achieve. At least two-thirds of the votes cast, representing a majority of all MEPs, are needed for a motion of censure to be approved, which would force the Commission to resign.
This means at least 360 votes — a threshold impossible to reach without the support of part of the current “centrist coalition”, the alliance made up of the European People’s Party (EPP), the Socialists and Dem
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