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Strasbourg, France (AFP) – Spain’s Teresa Ribera was Tuesday named as executive vice president in the next European Commission, tasked with overseeing the bloc’s economic transition towards carbon neutrality.

Spain’s current ecological transition minister and a longtime environmentalist, Ribera will be “responsible for a clean, just and competitive transition” as well as for competition policy, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen told a press conference.

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