New European Commission Composition To Be Announced Friday

Dacian Ciolos is the head of a presidential committee for agriculture and director of Department I for rural development programs with the European Commission General Department for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Each EU member state nominates its own commissioner, but Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has the final word on how the portfolios are distributed. The new team will begin work in February 2010, after receiving the European Parliament’s approval.