⇑ Vem är Costa

Medborgare i Portugal och Indien. Advokat. Premiärminister förPortugal 2015 till 2024. Han är president för Europeiska rådet sedan December 2024.

Costa hade en rad politiska poster sedan 1995, t.ex. borgmästare för Lisabon 2007-2015. Han utsågs till generalsekreterare för Socialistpartiet 2014, en tjänst som han behållit till början av 2024.

⇑ Rådet

Endags möten om förslag som redan är överenskomna. Hur då?

Står nära von der Leyen. Socialist. Medborgare även i Indien.

Vilka ingår i ER?

On 7 November 2023, Costa resigned following an investigation involving members of his government in connection with alleged corruption and malfeasance in handling lithium mining and hydrogen projects in the country. [1]

Costa's first role in a Socialist government was as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs under Prime Minister António Guterres between 1997 and 1999. In Guterres' second term, Costa held the office of Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2002.

During the 2003 Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal, António Costa's name was involved in wiretaps where he appears to want to interfere with the Public Prosecutor's Office to avoid the arrest of the PS deputy Paulo Pedroso.

Costa's third term was marred by a wave of scandals and resignations that affected his popularity negatively in the opinion polls.[51] 11 ministers and secretaries of state left their roles, over allegations of corruption and past misconduct or questionable practices.[52] The most significant scandal was the TAP scandal where Costa's government has been involved. Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos submitted his resignation in December 2022, following a public backlash over a hefty severance pay a secretary of state received from state-owned TAP, which fell under his remit.

⇑ Källor

• How will António Costa lead the European Council? | Radio Schuman
• António Costa, Wikipedia
• Criminal probe and ‘poor English' dog Costa's candidacy for European Council, Brussels Signal
• António Costa police, Googling
• EU has high hopes for the ‘anti-Michel', Politico
• António Costa: EU:s livsnerv är enighet och sammanhållning (2024-11-29)