Austria’s foreign minister suggests halving number of EU commissioners

  01 March 2017    Read: 973
Austria’s foreign minister suggests halving number of EU commissioners
Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has suggested efficiency measures for the EU including cutting the number of commissioners to 14 and abolishing two existing rules for each new rule it adopted, local media reported on Wednesday.
Kurz told Austrian media that commissioners should be appointed according to a rota system among the member states, reports confirmed by a foreign ministry spokesman, rather than every member state providing its own commissioner.

He also wants to strengthen the bloc’s common foreign and security policy and support so-called EU battle groups in securing external border controls. “The EU is too weak at major issues and too dominant in minor segments,” Kurz said.

/Reuters/

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