NEW EU TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER WILL BE INEXPERIENCED ITALIAN POLITICIAN
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the latest European Commission reshuffle, it is expected a rightwing Italian MEP with little transport experience - Antonio Tajani - will become the new transport Commissioner. He would replace France's Jacques Barrot who would move to the demanding justice portfolio, after the existing commissioner Franco Frattini joined Silvio Berlusconi's new Italian government.
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IN the latest European Commission reshuffle, it is expected a rightwing Italian MEP with little transport experience - Antonio Tajani - will become the new transport Commissioner. He would replace France's Jacques Barrot who would move to the demanding justice portfolio, after the existing commissioner Franco Frattini joined Silvio Berlusconi's new Italian government.
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