Friday, February 23, 2018

Denmark’s PM pours cold water on Vestager Commission bid

''Margrethe Vestager’s chances of getting reappointed as Europe’s antitrust boss just got bleaker.
Vestager needs the Danish government’s approval be renamed as competition commissioner — a job she’s said she wants to retain when the Commission rolls over in 2019.
But despite a poll showing that most Danes would like Vestager to remain in the role, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has poured cold water on the idea.
“Looking at the history books, there appears to be a fairly solid Danish tradition that the parliamentary majority’s group appoints a commissioner,” Rasmussen said in a podcast recorded by Danish online publication Altinget.
Rasmussen was underscoring the fact that — so long as they remain in power — he and his party need to give explicit backing to a new Vestager bid..''

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