Spain’s Canete to Get EU Merged Climate-Energy Chief Role
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Miguel Arias Canete, former Spanish agriculture and environment minister, was nominated as the European Union’s next commissioner for climate and energy, becoming the first single supervisor of those two policy areas.
Canete, 64, was chosen by European Commission President-designate Jean-Claude Juncker to take over from Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. He will oversee drafting energy and climate policies for the next decade following a political deal on carbon-reduction, energy-efficiency and renewable-energy targets that EU leaders aim to reach in October.