DIMAS HEARING
September 1st, 2004
BY DAVID HAWORTHSTAVROS Dimas, the next EU Commissioner for Environmental Affairs, was criticised as one of the weaker cards in the Barroso Commission pack when he appeared before a European Parliament hearing last week.There was cross-party sentiment that the former Greek Industry Minister did not have sufficient experience of environmental matters. The Socialist MEPs said afterwards that they would only give Dimas "qualified approval".Along with the Greens they claimed that the ideas for an environment strategy were "too vague". Moreover that under his ...
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