Pedro Solbes, currently commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, is set to be appointed finance minister of Spain, according to Spanish business paper Expansion.
If the report is confirmed, it would mean Mr Solbes would have to step down from Brussels before the Commission's term ends at the end of October.
According to Reuters, a Socialist party spokesperson dismissed the report as speculation and the Commission itself declined to comment.
Mr Solbes certainly has th...
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