It looks as though the ‘jobs for the boys’ negotiations conducted by Mariano Rajoy and Angela Merkel have borne fruit as Miguel Arias Cañete is on the list of proposed EU commissioners, although possibly not for one of the jobs considered ‘plum’.
Proposed list of Commissioners-designate for the next Commission:
Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS (Lithuania)
Andrus ANSIP (Estonia)
Miguel ARIAS CAÑETE (Spain)
Dimitris AVRAMOPOULOS (Greece)
Elżbieta BIEŃKOWSKA (Poland)
Alenka BRATUŠEK (Slovenia)
Corina CREŢU (Romania)
Valdis DOMBROVSKIS (Latvia)
Cristalina GEORGIEVA (Bulgaria)
Johannes HAHN (Austria)
Jonathan HILL (United Kingdom)
Phil HOGAN (Ireland)
Vĕra JOUROVÁ (Czech Republic)
Jyrki KATAINEN (Finland)
Cecilia MALMSTRÖM (Sweden)
Neven MIMICA (Croatia)
Carlos MOEDAS (Portugal)
Pierre MOSCOVICI (France)
Tibor NAVRACSICS (Hungary)
Günther OETTINGER (Germany)
Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ (Slovakia)
Christos STYLIANIDES (Cyprus)
Marianne THYSSEN (Belgium)
Frans TIMMERMANS (Netherlands)
Karmenu VELLA (Malta)
Margrethe VESTAGER (Denmark)
In addition to: Federica MOGHERINI (Italy), appointed High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy by the European Council in agreement with President-elect Juncker.