2023-07-19 07:52:00
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The day after a stormy hearing in the European Parliament, the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, announced this morning that the American was giving up coming to Brussels because of the “political controversies” aroused by her appointment.
It is by a tweet that Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner in charge of competition, announced Tuesday July 18 at 8 am that the American Fiona Scott Morton gave up becoming chief economist of the general direction which she oversees. In a letter, published by Vestager, the professor of economics at Yale University explains that the “political controversies” around the appointment of a non-European led her to make this decision. This puts an end to a veritable reluctance, the Commission having tried in vain to explain for a week why an American was the best choice for a position usually reserved for European nationals…
The affair turned into a political crisis on Tuesday when six commissioners demanded that the subject be dealt with by the college which is meeting this morning. An unprecedented act of defiance towards Ursula von der Leyen. At the initiative of the Frenchman Thierry Breton, commissioner for the internal market
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