NEW EU DIGITAL ECONOMY COMMISSIONER NOMINATED
September 1st, 2014
GERMANY’S Günther Oettinger, who is currently the European Union’s energy commissioner, has been nominated to become the EU’s new digital economy commissioner. He would replace the current digital agenda commissioner, Neelie Kroes of the Netherlands, who will leave her job on Nov 1, when the new team of commissioners under incoming president Jean-Claude Juncker comes into office.Oettinger is an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and a conservative politician from Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. In the past five years, he has had an ...
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