Normally the European Commission’s Competition portfolio alternates between a Commissioner from a large Member State and a small Member State. Thus it had been widely assumed that the Competition portfolio in the new Commission would go to Sylvie Goulard from France or Paolo Gentiloni from Italy, since the Presidency was occupied by a German (President-elect Ursula von der Leyen) and Spain’s Josep Borrell had secured the external relations position.
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