ITALIAN PICKS UP INDUSTRY BRIEF IN NEW COMMISSION
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KEY industry Commissioner position within the European Commission for the next five years should be occupied by an Italian right-winger Antonio Tajani - Commission president José Manuel Barroso proposed today. A member of Italy prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party, he is currently European Union (EU) transport Commissioner. Meanwhile, the other Commission position of importance to the textile and clothing sector - trade Commissioner - has been allotted to Karel de Gucht, the current Belgian EU Commissioner for ...
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