COMMISSION : HUNGARIAN ECONOMIST TO TAKE OVER FROM SPIDLA.

• Position: Laszlo Andor on Vladimir Spidla

The new Hungarian candidate Commissioner is the economist Laszlo Andor. If all goes well during the hearings in the European Parliament, Andor will soon take over the social policy and employment portfolio from the Czech Vladimir Spidla. Born in June 1966,aAndor has an academic background. He studied in the UK and the US before becoming a board member at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 2005. He is also an associate professor at the Economics Department at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Andor, who has been referred to...