2 weeks to the day after the European Parliament rejected Commissioner Candidate Sylvie Goulard, the Elysée presented a new candidate for the post of Internal Market Commissioner on Thursday 24 October: the head of enterprise and former Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry during the Chirac era, Thierry Breton. But there is already grumbling rising on the side of the European Parliament.
Speculation had been on the rise since 10 October about potential candidates, such as the...