Czech MEP Vrecionová elected head of EP agriculture committee

Two Czech MEPs were elected to senior committee positions in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday. Czech MEP Veronika Vrecionová was elected Chair of the influential Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), while Luděk Niedermayer was re-elected as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). Each EP committee elects its own leadership, made up of a Chair and up to four Vice-Chairs, for a two-and-a-half year mandate.

Vrecionová, of Czechia's Civic Democrat (ODS) party, is a member of the centre-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) parliamentary group, while Niedermayer, of Czechia's TOP 09 party, is in the European People's Party (EPP), the largest and oldest group in the European Parliament.