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BelgiumResponsibilities
- Coordinating the Commission’s work on a New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
- Ensuring coherence of the external and internal dimensions of migration.
- Developing pathways to legal migration for integration into the job market and society.
- Coordinating the Commission’s work on developing a European Security Union.
- Ensuring coherence of the external and internal dimensions of security.
- Coordinating the Commission’s work to strengthen prevention, detection and response measures to hybrid threats.
- Coordinating the Skills Agenda and European Education Area, making education more accessible and inclusive, encouraging lifelong learning, reskilling and cross-border learning.
- Coordinating work on inclusion and building a genuine Union of equality and diversity.
- Maximising the potential of culture and sport, the European Solidarity Corps and DiscoverEU programmes.
- Leading the Commission’s dialogue with churches and religious associations or communities, and with philosophical and non-confessional organisations
- Leading on the Commission’s fight against antisemitism.
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Biography
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European Commission Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life
2019 - present
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Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Communication, European Commission
2015-2019
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Chief Spokesperson, European Commission
2014-2019
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Resident Director in Athens – Head of Greece Operations, European Commission
2013-2014
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Deputy Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, European Commission
2010-2013
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Member of the European Parliament
2007-2009
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Head of Cabinet to Commissioner Markos Kyprianou, responsible for Health and Consumer Protection
2004-2007
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Deputy Head of Cabinet to Commission Vice-President Loyola de Palacio, responsible for Transport, Energy and Relations with the European Parliament
1999-2004
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Member of Cabinet to Commissioners Matutes and Oreja (successively)
1993-1994