NEW COMMISSIONERS
August 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE KEY European Commissioner for Europe's textile industry over the next four years will be Germany's Guenter Verheugen, the current commissioner for the enlargement of the European Union (EU). He was appointed to take office from November by incoming Commission president José Durão Barroso as enterprise and industry Commissioner, promoting manufacturing and business. Germany had pushed for him to be named 'first among equals' of EU economic commissioners, but Barroso refused. The other key textile sector appointment was Britain's former ...
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