Schinas defends ‘European Way of Life’ title

Liberal and socialist lawmakers at the European Parliament called on Thursday for a new title of European Commission Vice President for Protecting our European Way of Life to be scrapped because of its "toxic" far-right connotations.
Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the EU's executive, announced last month that Greece's Margaritis Schinas would be given the title, but it has been sharply criticised and she is under increasing pressure to drop it.
Schinas, a former member of the European Parliament (MEP) and a long-serving Commission official, found himself in the crosshairs of liberal and socialist lawmakers during a three-hour confirmation hearing on Thursday.
Kicking off the hearing by Parliament's committees on civil liberties and justice, and culture and education, Spanish socialist Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar asked Schinas to explain his future...