Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. What the nominations told us | December 2, 2010 |
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A glance at of the list of nominees and winners would show historians that Europeans were battered by many storms. When future scholars come to write the history of the... |
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| 2. An influential post | July 8, 2010 |
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Who can replace Jean-Claude Piris? Jean-Claude Piris, the head of the legal service in the secretariat of the Council of Ministers for the past 22 years, is a hugely... | |
| 3. The sky's not the limit | April 22, 2010 |
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European commissioners take different routes out of Madrid. Getting to the meeting of European Union finance ministers in Madrid last week was a challenge. Getting away... |
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| 4. Movers & Shakers | February 11, 2010 |
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Mogens Peter Carl, who was the European Commission's director-general for trade and then the director-general for environment, has joined the Brussels office of Kreab... | |
| 5. Šefčovič fends off accusations | January 18, 2010 |
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Slovak commissioner emerges safely after tackling head-on accusations of anti-Roma attitudes. Maroš Šefčovič had been embattled for some days when he entered his... | |
| 6. Tread carefully in forming EU diplomacy | November 18, 2009 |
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The EU's new diplomatic service must not seize powers that have always been in the hands of the Commission and EU governments. The Lisbon treaty will be a game-changer for... | |
| 7. Samecki faces cordial quizzing | September 2, 2009 |
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Past and current commissioners meet in a gentle exploration of the direction of regional policy in the last months of the current Commission. Regional policy needs to be... | |
| 8. Cowen secures guarantees on Lisbon treaty concerns | December 18, 2008 |
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Irish leaders pledge themselves to a second referendum after securing guarantees at EU summit. Brian Cowen, Ireland's prime minister, has pledged to hold a second referendum... |
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| 9. A post-Lisbon bridge? | June 19, 2008 |
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The ‘passerelle clause' has never been used but could help bridge the gap left in the justice agenda if the Lisbon treaty is not ratified.
Following Ireland's... | |
| 10. Timeline of the Treaty of Lisbon | June 13, 2008 |
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| 11. Hübner's recruits | September 6, 2007 |
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Danuta Hübner, the European commissioner for regional policy, has found herself a new chef de cabinet to replace Dutchman Joost Korte, who left abruptly just before the... | |
| 12. The hinges fall off Hübner's cabinet | July 26, 2007 |
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The so-called Lisbonisation of EU regional policy demands that regional aid is used to create jobs. Danuta Hübner, the European commissioner for regional policy, seems... | |
| 13. Concessions, but most treaty changes are only cosmetic | June 28, 2007 |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel achieved her objective: the mandate for the intergovernmental conference (IGC) agreed on Saturday (23 June) preserves most of the substance of... | |
| 14. Amato: simplified text could still do the job | June 7, 2007 |
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A group of senior EU politicians led by Italian Justice Minister Giuliano Amato has called for the constitution to be replaced by a shorter simplified treaty which still... | |
| 15. UK main obstacle to treaty reforms | May 31, 2007 |
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The legal personality of the EU, the legal status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the move to qualified majority voting have emerged as key sticking points in the... | |
| 16. Stepping back from lofty ambitions | May 24, 2007 |
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There is not much left of the lofty ambition of former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to give the EU a constitution equal to the text drafted by the... | |
| 17. Listen to the EU's citizens, Wallström tells Germany | December 14, 2006 |
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Margot Wallström, European commissioner for communication, has warned Germany's presidency of the EU against ignoring citizens for the sake of getting a quick agreement... | |
| 18. Why Europe should dare to be more dull | June 8, 2006 |
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Things in Brussels are rarely as they seem. One year after the French and Dutch referenda killed the EU constitution, commentators seem to agree that the Union remains in a... | |
| 19. Clouds clear in Klosterneuburg | June 1, 2006 |
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EU governments took the first tentative steps this weekend to end their self-enforced period of indecision and inaction introduced after the rejection of the Union's proposed... | |
| 20. Wallström vents fury at Barroso's REACH retreat | October 13, 2005 |
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European Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström has accused her colleagues of breaching collegiality and undermining the Commission's proposal on chemicals... | |
