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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11139

26 August 2014
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) commission
Juncker wants Commission in place by 1 November

Brussels, 25/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with the Austrian daily newspaper Der Kurier on Monday 25 August, the new president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, expressed his hopes that the new college of European commissioners would take up office as planned on 1 November.

Juncker expressed his hopes of this, even though he is struggling to finalise his team. Belgium has still to appoint its candidate to the post of commissioner (Didier Reynders and Marianne...