Friday, 5 September 2014

Juncker's EU commissioners list unveiled

The twenty six names sent to the Italian prime minister. Next step the distribution of seats

Jean-Claude Juncker
by Emanuele Bonini

The president-elect of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, today sent the list of Commissioners-designate to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi in his capacity as president of the Council of the European Union. The Council must now agree to this list, after which the list will be published in the Official Journal of the EU (the EU Statute Book). Only after all that Juncker will proceed to the distribution of portfolios. Finally, the European Parliament will vote on the entire College of Commissioners proposal, including the president and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Here the proposed list of Commissioners-designate for the next Commission, in alphabetical order:
Vytenis Andriukaitis (Lithuania)

Andrus Ansip (Estonia)

Miguel Arias Cañete (Spain)

Dimitris Avramopoulos (Greece)

Elżbieta Bienkowska (Poland)

Alenka Bratušek (Slovenia)

Corina Cretu (Romania)

Valdis Dombrovskis (Latvia)

Kristalina Georgieva (Bulgaria)

Johannes Hahn (Austria)

Jonathan Hill (United Kingdom)

Phil Hogan (Ireland)

Vĕra Jourovà (Czech Republic)

Jyrki Katainen (Finland)

Cecilia Mamström (Sweden)

Neven Mimica (Croatia)

Carlos Moedas (Portugal)

Pierre Moscovici (France)

Tibor Navracsics (Hungary)

Günther Oettinger (Germany)

Maroš Šefčovič (Slovakia)

Christos Stylianides (Cyprus)

Marianne Thyssen (Belgium)

Frans Timmermans (Netherlands)

Karmenu Vella (Malta)

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