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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8639

6 February 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/enlargement
Milos Kuzvart to be Czech candidate for post of European Commissioner

Brussels, 05/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - After several weeks of political wrangling, the Czech government has finally decided to put forward Milos Kuzvart (43) as the country's first European Commissioner, as of 1 May. The former Environment Minister (between 1998 and 2002) and current Social-Democrat MP was the preferred candidate of Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla, but his decisions triggered misgivings on the part of two minor coalition partners (two small centre parties), who did not feel...

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