NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS NOMINATED
September 1st, 2014
THE IDENTITY of a new European Union environment commissioner, who would be charged with handling the next round of REACH registration (until 2018), was revealed today. It will be Malta’s Karmenu Vella, who has been a Maltese tourism minister.Another important nomination is Poland’s Elżbieta Bieńkowska, who will become a new powerful internal market and entrepreneurship commissioner. Her job combines the responsibilities of removing trade barriers within the EU and also promoting industrial development, for instance using subsidies: these jobs had ...
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