Danuta Hübner to chair AFCO committee

Danuta Hübner (Poland), a former commissioner who, during the previous mandate, chaired the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development (REGI), was elected head of the Committee on  Constitutional Affairs (AFCO). A participant in the European Convention, she has shown, within the European People's Party (EPP), her knowledge of institutional issues. AFCO will have to adapt to the departure of Andrew Duff, a federalist member, who was not re-elected on 25 May. But AFCO has also reconnected with one of its…