My name is Maroš Šefčovič, I solve problems: who is the EU minister challenging Trump
A patient, tenacious and careful diplomat, Commissioner Šefčovič handled Brexit and EU Energy. Now the toughest task: negotiating tariffs with Donald
by Enrico Marro
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My name is Maroš, I solve problems.
Remember Mr Wolf from Pulp Fiction? Here he is: Maroš Šefčovič, the man now challenging Donald Trump on the tariffs front, the face of European negotiations, has for decades been someone who is used to taking problems apart in small, tiny pieces.
With patience, tenacity and the great virtue of listening to whoever is in front of him, be it a British Conservative minister on the Brexit front or a Swiss one for bilaterals.
Even Donald Trump, for the Mr Wolf of European diplomacy, is an old acquaintance."Maroš, thank you very much, thank you!" shouted the US president to the crowd from the stage set up in front of the LNG plant in Hackberry, Louisiana. Šefčovič had accompanied him on Air Force One in his capacity as European Energy Commissioner. That was May 2019, six years ago. Today it feels like sixty.
From Moscow to Brussels
.From brilliant student of Marxism-Leninism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations to first hour EU official, from protagonist of the Brexit negotiation to failed president of Slovakia to Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission for the Green Deal and, above all, Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security.
