PM: Bieńkowska to run for internal market commissioner

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has confirmed earlier reports that Deputy PM and Minister of Infrastructure and Development Elżbieta Bieńkowska is a candidate for the post of internal market commissioner of the EU. Answering a question at a meeting in Rybnik, the PM confirmed the news and said that Bieńkowska is a candidate due to her “extraordinary competence” and not the fact that she is a woman. Earlier this week it was officially announced that the infrastructure minister would be a candidate for one of the EU’s commissioners. She talked to president-elect of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Wednesday. The current EU internal market commissioner is Frenchman Michel Barnier. The term of the European Commission expires in October.