EU ROUND UP
August 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE ENERGY portfolio at the European Commission is being downgraded this November with the departure of Spain's Loyola de Palacio, a vice-president as well as an energy commissioner. Hungary's foreign minister László Kovacs - who will be a standard commissioner without the transport portfolio also commanded by De Palacio - is replacing her. Meanwhile, a conservative Greek Stavros Dimas, whose appointment has been taken to signal a possible weakening in Commission environmental activism, is replacing Swedish social democrat Margot Wallström as ...
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