1. Appointment
The European Commission quietly announced on July 11 the appointment of Fiona Scott Morton, 56, as chief economist at the Directorate-General for Competition, which is responsible for investigating companies and authorizing mergers and acquisitions. She was appointed at a meeting of 27 commissioners – according to Liberation, only the commissioner in charge of the administration voted against.
Three questions about the controversial appointment of American Fiona Scott Morton to the European Commission
2. American
The problem: The economist, a teacher at Yale University, is American. In theory, organizations should hire people with an EU passport, even if there are exceptions – there are 1,945 non-Europeans out of 32,000 employees. In commission, this is the first. “American? For the European Parliament, no!”And where is she
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