KOVACS MOVED
November 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCOMING European Commission president José Manuel Barroso has moved Hungary's Lazlo Kovacs from being energy commissioner-designate, after he was criticised by the European Parliament for being "professionally incompetent" in the field. He will now become tax commissioner and will be replaced by Latvia's Andris Piebalgs, a former education and finance minister.
INCOMING European Commission president José Manuel Barroso has moved Hungary's Lazlo Kovacs from being energy commissioner-designate, after he was criticised by the European Parliament for being "professionally incompetent" in the field. He will now become tax commissioner and will be replaced by Latvia's Andris Piebalgs, a former education and finance minister.
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