At ease and smiling during his often vague but strictly within the scope of his mission letter, Employment Commissioner-designate Nicolas Schmit hammered out a clear message to MEPs on Tuesday 1 October: his priority will be to strengthen economic and social convergence at European level and he will use all the instruments to achieve this objective.
“The strength of the European model is to reconcile the economic and the social and to fully involve the environment in it [...] The...