29/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - CDU elected member Peter Liese welcomes the designation of the Italian Minister for European Affairs, Rocco Buttiglione, as a member of the Barroso Commission. Mr Buttiglione's party, the UDC, is "clearly the winner of the European elections in Italy, and it should be normal for the Commissioner to be a winner of the elections and not, as in Germany, the loser", Mr Liese stresses in a press release while recognising that "naturally, it is a shame that Mario Monti...