Prodi Commission

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The Prodi Commission was the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Led by Romano Prodi, it took office on 13 September, 1999 after the Santer Commission resigned. Its planned term of office to 31 October, 2004 was extended when the initial Barroso Commission list proposal was withdrawn. It finally left office on 21 November 2004.

In the following tables, the colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:

affiliation	number of initial members	number of new members joining 2004-05-01
left leaning / socialist	11	1
right leaning / conservative	6	4
liberal	2	2
Green	1	0
other/unknown	0	3

[edit] Membership until 2004-05-01

Including Romano Prodi, who was the President of the Commission, there were initially 20 posts which were filled as follows:

commissioner	nominating member state	portfolio	party affiliation
Romano Prodi	Italy	President	Olive Tree
Neil Kinnock	UK	Vice-President, Administrative Reform	Labour
Loyola de Palacio	Spain	Vice-President, Relations with the Parliament, Transport & Energy	PP
Pedro Solbes	Spain	Economic & Monetary Affairs	PSOE
Michel Barnier	France	Regional Policy	UMP
Frits Bolkestein	Netherlands	Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union	VVD
Philippe Busquin	Belgium	Research	PS
David Byrne	Ireland	Health & Consumer Protection	Fianna Fáil
Stavros Dimas	Greece	Employment and Social Affairs	New Democracy
Franz Fischler	Austria	Agriculture, Rural Development & Fisheries	ÖVP
Pascal Lamy	France	Trade	Socialist
Erkki Liikanen	Finland	Enterprise & Information Society	SDP
Mario Monti	Italy	Competition	?
Poul Nielson	Denmark	Development & Humanitarian Aid	SD
Chris Patten	UK	External Relations	Conservatives
Viviane Reding	Luxembourg	Education and Culture	CSV
Michaele Schreyer	Germany	Budget	Greens
Günter Verheugen	Germany	Enlargement	SPD
António Vitorino	Portugal	Justice and Home Affairs	PS
Margot Wallström	Sweden	Environment	SDWP

[edit] Membership from 2004-05-01

These were augmented on 1 May 2004 by 10 commissioners from the accession states. Each of these shared a portfolio with one of the pre-existing commissioners. They eventually took over from the original portfolio holders, but only for a brief period until the Barroso Commission was inaugurated.

commissioner	nominating member state	portfolio	party affiliation
Péter Balázs	Hungary	Regional Policy	?
Joe Borg	Malta	Development & Humanitarian Aid	Nationalist Party
Ján Figeľ	Slovakia	Enterprise & Information Society	KDH
Dalia Grybauskaitė	Lithuania	Education and Culture	?
Danuta Hübner	Poland	Trade	none
Siim Kallas	Estonia	Economic & Monetary Affairs	ERP
Sandra Kalniete	Latvia	Agriculture, Rural Development & Fisheries	Popular Front of Latvia
Marcos Kyprianou	Cyprus	Budget	Diko
Pavel Telička	Czech Republic	Health & Consumer Protection	no party
Janez Potočnik	Slovenia	Enlargement	?