EU Commissioner Frattini resigns to take up new post in Italy

By KUNA,

Brussels : Franco Frattini, Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) responsible for justice, freedom and security, has resigned to take up his new post as Italys foreign minister.


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EC spokesman Johannes Laitenberger told a news conference here Thursday that Frattini has accepted to join the new Italian government as a foreign minister and submitted his resignation to the Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. The current EU transport Commisisoner Jacques Barrot of France will replace Frattini and an Italian will get the transport portfolio in the EC instead.

The spokesman said he did not know who the Italian government will nominate as a successor to Frattini.

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