Incoming Brussels chief tasks Netherlands’ Timmermans to deliver climate agenda

Published 12:11 on September 10, 2019  /  Last updated at 00:20 on September 16, 2020  / Ben Garside /  Carbon Taxes, CBAM, EMEA, EU ETS

Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appointed Frans Timmermans as one of three deputies and tasked the former Dutch foreign minister to deliver on her “European Green Deal” while overseeing commissioners for agriculture, health, transport, energy, cohesion and reforms, and environment and oceans.
Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has appointed Frans Timmermans as one of three deputies and tasked the former Dutch foreign minister to deliver on her “European Green Deal” while overseeing commissioners for agriculture, health, transport, energy, cohesion and reforms, and environment and oceans.


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