Press and Information Division

PRESS RELEASE No 36/04

30 April 2004

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SWEARING-IN OF TWO NEW COMMISSIONERS

Formal sitting of 30 April 2004




Mr Stavros C. Dimas (Greece) and Mr Joaquín Almunia Amann (Spain), new Members of the European Commission, have given the solemn undertakings provided for by the Treaties during a formal sitting before the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg today at 12 o’clock on the occasion of their entry into office.

The text of the speech delivered by the President of the Court of Justice, Mr Vassilios Skouris, is available to the press.


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