Next commissioner "to focus solely on research, innovation and education" (K. Deketelaere, Leru)

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"Ideally, the next commissioner should be able to focus solely on research, innovation, and education. No culture, no sports, no youth, nothing additional. The portfolio of Mariya Gabriel and Iliana Ivanova was just way too broad to devote enough attention to research, innovation and education", says Kurt Deketelaere, Leru's secretary general...

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