New INFO-SOC appointment to focus on research
The new deputy director-general of the European Commission's Information society DG, Peter Zangl, will 'ensure the contribution of research activities to the eEurope initiative,' and will take charge of the administrative and financial implementation of the specific technological research and development programme on a 'User friendly information society'. Mr Zangl will be taking up his post having worked in the Commission since 1978 and has experience in budget and employment and social affairs issues. Since 1997, he has been a director for the southern Mediterranean, near and Middle East in charge of areas such as the Barcelona process, aid to Palestine and MEDA implementation.