Executive Vice-President-designate Valdis Dombrovskis on Tuesday 8 October justified the intuition of the President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who placed the Latvian Christian Democrat in the same hierarchical rank as the Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans and the Danish liberal Margrethe Vestager in the future College of European Commissioners (see EUROPE B12324A1).
In a speech to the European Parliament's Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON),...