European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services
Member State: France
Political Party: European People’s Party
Date of birth: 9 January 1951

Barnier has held a number of ministerial posts in France, including Agriculture and Fisheries, Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and the Environment.  He was the European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 1999-2004 in the Prodi Commission and was briefly a member of the European Parliament in 2009.

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