Barroso names new Head and Deputy Head of Cabinet plus Commission Spokeswoman

摘要

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on 28 October named Johannes Laitenberger, new Head of his Cabinet, Fernando Frutuoso de Melo as Deputy Head of the Cabinet and Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen as Commission Spokeswoman. All three take up their appointments on 1 November.rnSpeaking at the midday news briefing that day Commission Vice President Siim Kallas said that the EU executive had made a lot of appointments at the 28 October meeting because it was the last opportunity to do so. From 1 November, the current college becomes an "acting Commission" until the Lisbon Treaty is ratified and the Barroso II Commission can be installed. An acting Commission cannot make appointments, Kallas explained.