Blockchain-friendly Roberta Metsola re-elected president of EU Parliament

-- Roberta Metsola has been re-elected president of the European Parliament. -- She once called for Crypto regulation to be introduced when necessary without stifling innovation, and was president during the passage of the EU's Crypto law , MiCA.

Roberta Metsola, a member of the European Parliament from Malta, was re-elected president of the legislature. on Tuesday.

She received 562 of the 699 available votes and will hold the position for two and a half years. She became president of the body in January 2022 following the death of her predecessor, and was previously vice president since November 2020. The president represents the parliament in all legal and international matters .

In 2018, as an MEP from Malta, she called for regulation of Crypto and blockchains when appropriate and without stifling innovation . She was also selected by her party, the European People's Party, to formulate her position on the EU's blockchain strategy in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

During her previous tenure, a broad package of EU Crypto rules, Markets in Crypto (MiCA), became law . Stablecoin rules from the package recently came into force, with the remaining rules expected to come into force by the end of the year.

However, Metsola's impact on the Policy may be small.

“The role of the President of the European Parliament is largely ceremonial/representational in nature and therefore the holder of this role has limited input into the Policy processes of the EU,” Mark Foster, Head of EU Policy at Crypto for Innovation, told CoinDesk.