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## Re: DISCUSSION - New EU Commission

Released on 2012-08-24 04:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1081483
Date | 2009-11-30 18:32:11
From | laura.jack@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

Some thoughts:
Almunia - I know several competition lawyers that deal with this
DG/Commissioner, waiting to hear their thoughts
Barnier - As part of the deal that was supposed to appease the British,
the top guy in this DG will be a Brit, which on its face looks great, but
keep in mind that the Commissioner's office and the respective DG are
often at odds. Plus the British guy has little to no actual finance
experience - he's a career EU diplomat.
Rehn: The Finns are completely shocked that they got a big portfolio -
they were expecting something like enlargement again (not that it's not
important but certainly not as big as econ)
De Gucht: Oh Really, from development aid to TRADE? Feels like another
compromise pick
Marko Papic wrote:
Resending
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marko Papic" <marko.papic@stratfor.com>
To: "analysts" <analysts@stratfor.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:00:04 AM GMT -06:00 Central America
Subject: DISCUSSION - New EU Commission
Ok, so the new EU Commission has been announced.
What is the relevance of this EU Commission? Well for one, the Germans
and the French have LOCKED DOWN the two key posts: internal market and
energy! How did they do this? By brilliant manuvering. They gave the
Poles the EP Presidency, which Warsaw thought was uber important but is
mainly ceremonial. That was the first key EU post and they gave it to
the Poles first, who bought it like crazy. Then they got UK out of EU's
internal business by giving London the FM post. This was not as "cheap"
as the EP President, BUT it gave the post to a relative unknown Brit who
is from Labor and now owes her relevancy completely to the EU.
BRILLIANT.
Here are the next steps:
* 11-19 Jan. 2010: Hearings with the newly-nominated commissioners
in the European Parliament.
* 26 Jan. 2010: Final vote of the European Parliament on the full
Commission (9.00-11.00 debate in plenary; 11.00-12.00 political
group meetings; 12.00-13.00 vote in plenary).
* 1 Feb. 2010: New Commission expected to take office.
Entire line up (my comments in orange):
The appointments in full:
* Jose Manuel Barroso (Portugal): President With Van Rompuy as EU
President, Barroso still retains power. Imagine if Blair was EU
President. It would be Barroso who?
* Joaquin Almunia (Spain): Competition According to EU sources, he is
loyal to Barroso (makes sense, they are Iberian). He is also a bad
ass. Expect him to take member states to court if he deems they are
being protectionist. Will piss off Berlin and Paris for sure.
* Catherine Ashton (UK): Foreign Affairs High Representative As I
said, this was a great choice for Berlin and Paris. They get UK off
of their hands with a post that will not let UK meddle in EU
internal affairs.
* Michel Barnier (France): Internal Market and Services BOOM. This
shows how RETARDED Brown is. He installed a relative unknown who may
go "native" into the FM post and gave up the internal market and
services to the FRENCH!!! The City of London is PISSED.
* Olli Rehn (Finland): Economic and Monetary Affairs Former
Enlargement guy gets this post, also loyal to Barroso, will
undoubtedly piss off Berlin and Paris.
* Dacian Ciolos (Romania): Agriculture
* John Dalli (Malta): Health and Consumer Policy Wow... granted, the
Maltese are super health conscious, so if you're Monsanto or
Sagenta, you are NOT happy.
* Karel De Gucht (Belgium): Trade
* Stefan Fu:le (Czech Republic): Enlargement This was something that
was discussed. A new member state gets the enlargement portfolio.
Nice compromise here as well, since Prague is not as crazy about
Ukraine/Georgia
* Connie Hedegaard (Denmark): Climate Action Denmark gets climate
action, poignant.
* Maire Geoghegan-Quinn (Ireland): Research and Innovation
* Janusz Lewandowski (Poland): Budget/Financial Programming
* Guenther Oettinger (Germany): Energy HUUUUUGE... Germany gets a key
post and screws Central Europeans completely
* Janez Potocnik (Slovenia): Environment Slovenians got on the whole
"green" bandwaggon first, so this is cute.
* Neelie Kroes (Netherlands): Digital Agenda
* Laszlo Andor (Hungary): Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Oh
God... Hungarians in charge of employment...
* Maria Damanaki (Greece): Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Makes sense.
* Johannes Hahn (Austria): Regional Policy Tame choice.
* Rumiana Jeleva (Bulgaria): International Cooperation, Humanitarian
Aid and Crisis Response
* Siim Kallas (Estonia): Transport
* Cecilia Malmstro:m (Sweden): Home Affairs
* Andris Piebalgs (Latvia): Development
* Viviane Reding (Luxembourg): Justice, Fundamental Rights and
Citizenship
* Algirdas Semeta (Lithuania): Taxation and Customs Union
* Antonio Tajani (Italy): Industry and Entrepreneurship This is
usually the DG that fights with all the free market DGs, so Italian
running it is a key.
* Androulla Vassiliou (Cyprus): Education, Culture, Multilingualism
and Youth
* Maros Sefcovic (Slovakia): Interinstitutional Relations and
Administration

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