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Briton takes top Euro job

14th March 1991, Page 6
14th March 1991
Page 6
Page 6, 14th March 1991 — Briton takes top Euro job
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The new man in charge of transport at the European Commission in Brussels is to be British.

Robert Coleman, a bureaucrat with the competition directorate, takes over from Eduardo Pena as director-general, making him right hand man to the Transport Commissioner Kakel van Miert, who is a semi-political appointee. Coleman does not have any prior transport experience. Pena is moving to another key post in the Commission, overseeing its administration.

CM predicted that a Briton would take over from Pena (CM 14-20 February), but the front runner then appeared to be Jim Currie, aide to competition commissioner Sir Leon Brittan.