New team of European Commission aims to work on defence, green world and growth

Amidst high-voltage power politics amongst nations in European Union, European Commission’s re-elected executive chief Ursula von der Leyen, on Tuesday named a new team. The new team includes Lithuania's

Andrius Kubilius, who will be the European Commission’s first defence commissioner. His designated role is to build up European military manufacturing capacity in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Spain's Energy and Environment minister Teresa Ribera will be the new antitrust chief tasked with reining in the power of Big Tech and also ensuring that the EU achieves its green goals.

A day before, French President Emmanuel Macron, by agreeing to yield to von der Leyen, who got re-elected as the chief of European Commission, had been weakened on the European stage, as he had to sacrifice his heavyweight candidate Thierry Breton.

The European Union and the new team aim to dedicate themselves to work on security, environment, competitiveness and growth, European Commission is the most powerful institution of European Union. World’s most populous nation, Indian to go for Census after a delay of three years

India’s national Census would be carried out soon, country’s Interior Minister Amit Shah has said, according to news organisations. The Census operations in the world’s most populous nation, will take place after a delay of over three years.

The Census had to be carried out in 2021. Census in India takes place once in every ten years. The 2021-Census could not be held due to pandemic. The Census operations will be completed in 18 months after they kick off.