Reding: "What if a German-Greek couple living in Belgium divorce?"

Viviane Reding has moved from the European Commission post overseeing Information, Society and Media to Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, and stopped during the European Peoples Party Congress in Bonn, Germany last month to
be interviewed by New Europe about the change, communication, and the new commission that will be in place until 2014, overseeing the workings of the Lisbon Treaty that gives the EU a mandate to carry out a new set of rules and regulations for its 27 Member States. It will be a big change for her, especially since the communication portfolio of former Commissioner Margot Wallstrom was deemed not important enough to continue. She had some immediate thoughts on her workload and ideas for Europe. Reding, 58, is from Luxembourg. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989-99 and previously worked as a journalist.

Interview available in text at: http://www.neurope.eu/

Interview recorded during the EPP Statutory Congress in Bonn, 9-10/12/2009

Interviewer: Andy Carling

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