Comments on: Th!nk European Commission

By: Peer Steinbrück – The new German EU Commissioner? | Kosmopolito

Sun, 09 May 2010 09:58:59 +0000

[...] a quick post about the German discussion about the new EU Commissioner. (and a part of our concerted blog campaign). btw: Jan wrote a very useful overview of the state of play in all EU member [...]

By: Antal, Dániel

Antal, Dániel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:53:34 +0000

Hungary: Mr László Andor
http://central.blogactiv.eu/2009/11/10/hungary-names-probably-oddest-commissioner/

We have roughly 8 million eligible citizens, I would not have given a better odd than 1:500,000

By: Kosmopolito

Kosmopolito — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:16:07 +0000

UK: Baroness Vadera

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6597988.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:40:00 +0000

Latvian news agency LETA has finally written something about this topic, yehuu! Just the only problem – it’s all based on our Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Riekstins’ thoughts. According to him:
a) Our current commissioner Andris Piebalgs wants to work as an ambassador of Latvia somewhere abroad, not in EC anymore;
b) Maris Riekstins himself, if the prime minister would offer, would consider becoming a commissioner.

Also TV news “Nothing Personal” has mentioned M. Riekstins as 2nd best candidate for this post.

LETA also wrote that our prime minister has told that “New Era”‘s candidate for the commissioner is Solvita Aboltina, ex Minister of Justice and current Deputy Speaker of Latvian Parliament. “Nothing Personal” has mentioned her as the 1st best candidate.

By: Kosmopolito

Kosmopolito — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:52:21 +0000

Viviane Reding wants to stay Commissioner for Information Society but with a “broadened mandate”

http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/reding-plans-new-commission-term/article-183406

By: Kosmopolito

Kosmopolito — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:31:04 +0000

Apparently Pat Cox wants to become the Irish Commissioner:

http://blogs.euobserver.com/mahony/2009/06/23/the-return-of-pat-cox/

By: Julien Frisch

Julien Frisch — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:11:22 +0000

Die Presse on possible Austrian candidates:
http://diepresse.com/text/home/politik/eu/488743/index.do?from=rss

By: Brusselsblogger

Brusselsblogger — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:59:43 +0000

@Antaldaniel

Exactly the same in Austria. Austrian Prime Minister Faymann even said in an interview last week that the question who becomes Commission President is “not that important” and that the Commission is in fact more like an “administrative body”.