Malta’s commissioner hearing: Glenn Micallef quizzed on plan to boost youth and culture — as it happened

The Commission candidate of the European Union’s smallest country is stepping up to the plate.

In the lead-up to his hearing, Malta’s Glenn Micallef captured attention for all the wrong reasons: He’s young (35); he’s a man; and he’d never held ministerial office.

It landed Micallef the comparatively light Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport portfolio. But von der Leyen pushed intergenerational fairness — the idea of not harming future generations — as a key concept in her program and asked her youngest incoming commissioner to develop a strategy underpinning it.

How will he fare when MEPs turn on the screws to test his credentials? Follow all the action below from Monday, Nov. 4, from 2.30 p.m.

Watch the livestream here.

P.S. If you want to follow more of the action from the hearings, our reporters will be bringing you blow-by-blow updates from all 26 commissioner interviews here.