The competition portfolio in President Juncker’s new Commission falls to Margrethe Vestager, a social liberal politician from Denmark.
Margrethe Vestager is expected to take up her post as the new Competition Commissioner on 1 November 2014, following approval of the College of Commissioners by the European Parliament in Brussels today. It is expected that the Council will confirm the Parliament’s vote in the next couple of days.
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