FRANCE PROMISES TO USE ITS INFLUENCE ON ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER
December 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE'S nominee to the new European Commission has publicly declared he will try to influence the Romanian proposed as the new agriculture Commissioner. Speaking at a press conference in Paris, Michel Barnier, who has been allotted the powerful internal market brief, said: "He will be independent but I will give him my opinion," a potentially undiplomatic statement given the concerns aired about French influence over nominee Dacian Ciolo?. Barnier, a former French agriculture minister and European regional policy Commissoner went ...
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