The new Commissioner for Consumer Protection
With the entry of Croatia into the EU Croatian Deputy Prime Minister for the Interior, Foreign and European Affairs – Neven Mimica became 28 European Commissioner. According to EU law, each Member State is entitled to have one commissioner in the European Commission. A new member of the EC is to take care of consumer protection, at the same time part of his competence will lose Maltese Commissioner – Tonio Borg, who previously oversaw the Directorate General for Health and Consumers.