Frans Timmermans could become the most powerful EU official in Brussels.
As first vice-president of the European Commission, deputising to a hands-off president, just about everything that goes on in the EU executive is to go over the Dutch man's desk.
His dossier will stretch from ensuring that the EU is making better laws; to overseeing the rule of law; being in charge of sustainable development; maintaining institutional relations, and deciding the commission's position on a ke...
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