Jean-Claude Juncker, the next president of the European Commission, is faced with the prospect of having at most nine women in his college of European commissioners, whose composition is to be finalised in the coming days.
The European Council is to meet on Saturday (30 August) to decide who should succeed Herman Van Rompuy as the president of the European Council and who should succeed Catherine Ashton as the European Union’s foreign policy chief, who will also be a member of the college of European commissioners.
But the national leaders of the EU’s member states will meet knowing that there is …read more
Source: European Voice
