NEW TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER
August 1st, 2004
BY ALAN OSBORNJACQUES Barrot, who has been given responsibility for transport in the new European Commission, is a close political ally of the French president Jacques Chirac and can be expected to take a tough line in defending French interests when Brussels draws up transport policy in the next five years. Barrot, who has held a number of French ministerial posts, most recently as labour minister, was the first chairman of France's UMP party, which was created in 2002 to support Chirac's candidature in the second round of the French presidential ...
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