EU green deal chief tapped to be bloc’s next trade minister

Maroš Šefčovič, a long-serving European Commission official who has been steering the EU’s work to transition to a green economy, is set to become the bloc’s trade chief in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s second term. The current trade minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, is slated to take on a top economic post. The EU Commission president, recently elected to serve a second five-year term, on Tuesday named a new team of top officials following what she described as “intensive...