Sefcovic to be Slovakia’s next commissioner

Maros Sefcovic, the commissioner for interinstitutional relations and administration, looks set to retain his post in the EU executive's next college. Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has said that Sefcovic will lead the campaign for the country's Social Democrat party, SMER-SD (member of the PES) and will be the government's candidate for commissioner. In this way, Sefcovic conforms to the European Parliament's requirements that a commissioner should be given the citizens' blessing by first being elected as an MEP. Sefcovic,…