List of new EU commissioners

Herewith a list of the European Union (EU)'s new commissioners taking up office after a vote by the European Parliament Thursday was delayed by three weeks due to a row over the initial line-up.
  
   Commission president
   - Jose Manuel Barroso, Portugal
  
   Vice-presidents
   - Siim Kallas, Estonia: administrative affairs, audit and anti-fraud
   - Jacques Barrot, France: transport
   - Guenter Verheugen, Germany: enterprise and industry
   - Franco Frattini, Italy: justice freedom and security
   - Margot Wallstroem, Sweden: institutional ties and communication strategy
  
   Others
   - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austria: external relations
   - Louis Michel, Belgium: development and humanitarian aid
   - Markos Kyprianou, Cyprus: health and consumer protection
   - Vladimir Spidla, Czech Republic: jobs and social affairs
   - Mariann Fischer Boel, Denmark: agriculture and rural development
   - Olli Rehn, Finland: EU enlargement
   - Stavros Dimas, Greece: environment
   - Laszlo Kovacs, Hungary: tax and customs union
   - Charlie McCreevy, Ireland, internal market and services
   - Andris Piebalgs, Latvia: energy
   - Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuania: financial programming and budget
   - Viviane Reding, Luxembourg: information society and media
   - Joe Borg, Malta: fisheries and maritime affairs
   - Neelie Kroes, the Netherlands: competition
   - Danuta Huebner, Poland: regional policy
   - Jan Figel, Slovakia: education, training, culture and multilingualism
   - Janez Potocnik, Slovenia, science and research
   - Joaquin Almunia, Spain: economic and monetary affairs
   - Peter Mandelson, United Kingdom: trade