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Plenković: Small member states need their own Commissioner

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Published: October 15th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenković with Olaf Scholz. The German Chancellor had invited him to the Western Balkans summit in Berlin.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković sees no willingness among the EU member states to give up their own representative in the EU Commission in order to reduce its size. „For smaller countries like mine, that would be the path to irrelevance„, said Plenković during an appearance at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin. Not sending a commissioner would be tantamount to not existing in Brussels.

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