Name: EC press statements by European Commission President Ursula von der LEYEN, Commissioner Piotr SERAFIN, and Catherine DAY, Chair of the High-Level Group on the Future, of the Commission's Civil, on the occasion of the handover of the report by the external advisers on the Large-scale review
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EC press statements by European Commission President Ursula von der LEYEN, Commissioner Piotr SERAFIN, and Catherine DAY, Chair of the High-Level Group on the Future, of the Commission's Civil, on the occasion of the handover of the report by the external advisers on the Large-scale review

26 octobre 2026

Sommaire mis à jour le 26 oct. 2026

The moderator announces the press statements by President von der Leyen, Commissioner Serafin and Catherine Day on the handover of the High-Level Group’s report for the Commission’s large-scale review, and gives the floor to the President, who sets out the need for an EU administration able to turn political choices into action and introduces the external advisers’ role.

European Commission lun. 26 oct. 2026 Commission européenne

00:00 - 00:20

Intervenant 2

Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us for the press statements by President von der Leyen, Commissioner Serafin, and Catherine Day, Chair of the High-Level Group on the Future of the Commission's Civil Service, on the occasion of the handover of the report by the external advisers on the Large-scale review. President, the floor is yours.

00:20 - 02:14

Intervenant 1

Yeah, thank you very much. Good afternoon. We live in a world that gives little time to adapt. We face growing external and internal challenges to our security, to our economy, and to our societies, and increasingly these challenges converge. Rising to the task requires clear political choices, but it also requires an administration that turns these choices into action.

The political guidelines are calling for a Europe that is faster, simpler, and more focused, and therefore the Commission, of course, must also lead by example. This is why I asked Commissioner Serafin in his mission letter to undertake a large-scale review of our organizations and operations. This work brings together three perspectives. The first is the experience of colleagues across the Commission. The second is benchmarking against comparable organizations.

And the third is the advice of the High-Level Reflection Group, our external sounding board. And today I welcome the group's report, which brings an independent external perspective to the modernization and the reform of the Commission. It is drawing on the experience of its members from other national and international public administration reforms, and I really want to thank Catherine Day and all its members for your remarkable work and the important contribution. We have strong foundations to build on. Through successive crises, our European civil service has shown its dedication, its professionalism, and its capacity to deliver.

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