{"id":19426,"date":"2014-09-08T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=19426"},"modified":"2014-09-08T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:12:26","slug":"women-as-eu-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/women-as-eu-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Women as EU Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Juncker must give decent portfolios to at least some of the eight women that have been nominated to the college in addition to Federica Mogherini, the foreign policy chief.\u00a0 El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska, Kristalina Georgieva, Cecilia Malmstr\u00f6m and Margrethe Vestager have deserved reputations for being very competent.\u00a0\u00a0Also,\u00a0Juncker has to reward those member states that opted to nominate women as he struggled to reach nine women out of 28.\u00a0Romania switched to Corina Cre\u0163u, the Czech Republic put forward V\u0115ra Jourov\u00e1, and\u00a0Belgium eventually nominated Marianne Thyssen. Juncker has to decide whether to reward all women or to discriminate among them by, for example, ignoring the claims of Alenka Bratu\u0161ek, ex-prime minister of Slovenia.<\/p>\n

Juncker also faces issues of political persuasion.\u00a0 How does he accommodate liberals and what policy does he endorse by an appointment.\u00a0 Lobbyists wonder about Juncker\u2019s approach to climate change, or to EU enlargement, or to manufacturing industry and\u00a0will be reading much into his choice of commissioners, and his decisions to merge or abolish dossiers.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the relationships between Catherine Ashton, the current high representative, and the other commissioners who have foreign policy portfolios \u2013 neighborhood, development, humanitarian aid, trade \u2013 could hardly be described as smooth.\u00a0 will Juncker make an attempt to re-shape the structure of the Commission to tie in Mogherini with the other commissioners?<\/p>\n

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Juncker must give decent portfolios to at least some of the eight women that have been nominated to the college in addition to Federica Mogherini, the foreign policy chief.\u00a0 El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska, Kristalina Georgieva, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-inequality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t