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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9938

9 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/belgium
Louis Michel to leave Commission on 13 July to take his seat in European Parliament - Karel de Gucht to replace him

Brussels, 08/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Belgian commissioner Louis Michel (with responsibility for development and humanitarian aid) will leave the European Commission on 13 July, to take up his seat the next day in the new European Parliament, to which he was elected on 7 June as top of the list of French-speaking Liberals in Belgium. He will be replaced in the Commission by the current Belgian foreign affairs minister, Karel De Gucht, who will inherit the portfolio of his fellow Belgian...

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