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
By: N. Peter Kramer
