European Commissioner for Budget and Administration

Short description: Member of the College of Commissioners of the European Union

European Commissioner
for Budget and Administration

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Incumbent
Johannes Hahn
since 1 December 2019

Style| Mr. Commissioner
Member of| the European Commission
Reports to| President of the European Commission
Term length| 5 years
Formation| 2 July 1967; 58 years ago (1967-07-02)
First holder| Albert Coppé

The European Commissioner for Budget and Administration is the member of the European Commission who is responsible for negotiating and managing the EU budget. The current commissioner is Johannes Hahn.

The portfolio is primarily responsible for the management of the budget of the European Union and related financial issues except for budgetary discharge which falls under the Admin Commissioner.

## Contents

* 1 The Commissioners
* 2 List of commissioners
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## The Commissioners

Janusz Lewandowski was the European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget as part of the Barroso Commission II. His predecessor was Algirdas Šemeta, who in turn succeeded fellow Lithuanian Dalia Grybauskaitė. The European Parliament approved a Commissioner for Financial Programming & the Budget for the first time in 2004, a position expanded since the Prodi Commission to include Financial Programming.

The Commissioner's 121.6 billion euro 2008 budget proposed that for the first time, the budget towards sustainable growth (€57.2 billion) would be higher than that of the Common Agricultural Policy (€56.3 billion), traditionally the largest source of expenditure in the EU. There would be an increase in cohesion funds, energy and transport of 14%, research by 11% and lifelong learning by 9%. There would also be an increase in the administrative budget, aid to Kosovo and Palestinian institutions and funds towards the Galileo project.[1]

## List of commissioners

| Name  | Country  | Period  | Commission

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1  | Albert Coppé  |  Belgium  | 1967–1973  | Malfatti Commission, Mansholt Commission
2  | Wilhelm Haferkamp  |  Germany  | 1973–1977  | Ortoli Commission
3  | Christopher Tugendhat  |  United Kingdom  | 1977–1985  | Jenkins Commission, Thorn Commission
4  | Henning Christophersen  |  Denmark  | 1985–1989  | Delors Commission I
5  | Peter Schmidhuber  |  Germany  | 1989–1995  | Delors Commission II & III
6  | Erkki Liikanen  |  Finland  | 1995–1999  | Santer Commission
7  | Michaele Schreyer  |  Germany  | 1999–2004  | Prodi Commission
8  | Marcos Kyprianou  |  Cyprus  | 2004  | Prodi Commission
9  | Dalia Grybauskaitė  |  Lithuania  | 2004–2009  | Barroso Commission I
10  | Algirdas Šemeta  |  Lithuania  | 2009–2010  | Barroso Commission I
11  | Janusz Lewandowski  |  Poland  | 2010–2014  | Barroso Commission II
12  | Jacek Dominik  |  Poland  | 2014–2014  | Barroso Commission II
13  | Kristalina Georgieva  |  Bulgaria  | 2014–2016  | Juncker Commission
14  | Günther Oettinger  |  Germany  | 2017–2019  | Juncker Commission
15  | Johannes Hahn  |  Austria  | 2019-  | Von der Leyen Commission

## See also

* Directorate-General for Budget
* European Union Budget

## References

1. ↑ "Group of EU states wary of 2008 budget plan". http://euobserver.com/19/24012?rss_rk=1.

## External links

* Commissioner's Website
* Commission Budget Website
* DG Budget

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