Formal hearings of commissioners-designate were introduced as a result of the Maastricht Treaty. The first Commission to be subject to this new procedure was the Santer Commission in 1995. Pádraig FLYNN, Commissioner-designate for Employment & Social Affairs and relations with the EESC, appears before the parliamentary committee in his prospective fields of responsibility.

Strasbourg

hearing of Commissioners

1995 Commissioners' hearings (T)

FLYNN, Padraig (IE)

Santer Commission: hearing of Pádraig FLYNN, Commissioner-designate for Employment & Social Affairs and relations with the EESC

SOUNDBITE (English), Padraig FLYNN, Commissioner-designate for Employment &amp; Social Affairs and relations with the EESC, -