Denmark’s new prime minister wants Margrethe Vestager to stay on as the country’s European commissioner

Denmark’s new prime minister wants Margrethe Vestager to stay on as the country’s European commissioner.

Mette Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV 2 Wednesday “we will propose that the commissioner that we have already appointed, namely Margrethe Vestager, has the chance to continue for the next five years.”

Vestager has been the Commission’s competition chief since 2014 and her name had been floated as a possible replacement for Jean-Claude Juncker as Commission president.

Via Politico

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