New European Commission To Be Voted Wednesday In Strasbourg Jean-Claude Junckers team of European Commissioners is to be voted on Wednesday in Strasbourg. It is likely that the 28-strong team will win the parliamentary approval of the full assembly and the handover of EU executive power will take place as scheduled on November 1. Earlier in October Bulgarias nominee for the European Commission Kristalina Georgieva was unanimously approved for EC VP for Budget and Human Resources by the group representatives in the European Parliament committees. Juncker’s line-up was completed yesterday when the designated commissioners for energy-policy coordination and transport - Slovakia’s Maros Sefcovic and Slovenia’s Violeta Bulc - were given passing marks for their performances in European Parliament confirmation hearings. President-elect Juncker was forced to shuffle his team last week after Alenka Bratusek, Slovenia’s original nominee to the commission, withdrew following her rejection for the energy-union job because of a lackluster showing in her hearing. He gave Bulc, Slovenia’s subsequent nominee, the transport portfolio originally assigned to Sefcovic and moved Sefcovic to the energy vice-presidency post.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:48:05 +0000
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