Benita Ferrero-Waldner has been nominated as her country's next European Commissioner.
Her nomination was formally announced by Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel on Tuesday afternoon (27 July).
The Austrian foreign minister told Austrian radio that she is delighted to accept her country's nomination to join the new Commission in the Autumn.
Her nomination brings the prospective number of women in the new Commission to six, two short of President-elect José Manuel Durão Barroso's...
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