Anthony Teasdale as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1996-97. Later, Teasdale served as head of policy strategy and legislative planning for the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and as deputy chief of staff to Jerzy Buzek MEP, the former Prime Minister of Poland when the latter was President of the European Parliament from 2009-12. In addition to co-authoring (with Timothy Bainbridge) "The Penguin Companion to European Union" (see above), Teasdale has written articles on European and US politics in several academic journals, including "Political Quarterly", "Government and Opposition", "Electoral Studies" and the "Journal of Common Market Studies". His most recent publication
European Commissioner openly gay Commissioner. The first female Commissioners were Christiane Scrivener and Vasso Papandreou in the 1989 Delors Commission. European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek proposed in 2010 that Commissioners be directly elected, by member states placing their candidate at the top of their voting lists in European elections. That would give them individually, and the body as a whole, a democratic mandate. Each Member is required to take an oath before the Court of Justice of the European Union, officially the "Solemn Declaration before the Court of Justice of the European Union". As of December 2009, the Charter of Fundamental Rights