The Socialist group in the European Parliament on Tuesday (12 January) took aim at Lithuania's commissioner designate, raising "serious doubts" about his ability to deal with the tax and anti-fraud portfolio.
"The overwhelming impression was disappointment which leads us to question his suitability to be nominated for this important commission portfolio," Hannes Swoboda, the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group's vice-president in charge of the commissioners hearings said in a press rel...
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