
Your search for "European Commission and European External Action Service" produced 32 items.
| 1. So near, so far | January 12, 2012 |
A staff committee for the EEAS. One year after the European External Action Service was launched, its employees have now formed a staff committee to represent their interests... |
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| 2. On the move | October 27, 2011 |
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Finance ministers not welcome in the Justus Lipsius building. Amid the sequence of meetings at the weekend on the eurozone's debt crisis, an interesting precedent was set. On... | |
| 3. Time for plan B | July 20, 2011 |
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A change of plan for the EEAS offices. Entre Nous hears that David O'Sullivan, the head of administration at the European External Action Service, is having to scale back... | |
| 4. Polish enforcer | July 14, 2011 |
The fast-moving career of Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, Poland's EU affairs minister. When the first Poles walked off the ferry at Dover on 1 May 2004, the day Poland joined the EU,... |
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| 5. The European Parliament belongs in Strasbourg | July 14, 2011 |
The Parliament should only have one seat, and it shouldn't be in Brussels. Your headline on a news report on the possibility of a single seat for the European Parliament –... |
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| 6. Hungary to propose greater mutual oversight of spending | February 24, 2011 |
Council and Parliament could ‘open up' accounts as Hungary seeks to sweeten soured relations. The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers are edging towards... |
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| 7. A development path for the Commission | February 10, 2011 |
Simon Maxwell assesses the Commission's record on development over the past year and sets out three tasks for 2011. Andris Piebalgs became European commissioner for... |
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| 8. Belgium scores well on style and substance | January 6, 2011 |
Agreements reached in three important areas as understated approach led to deals with MEPs. Belgium's presidency of the Council of Ministers, which ran from 1 July to 31... |
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| 9. What the nominations told us | December 2, 2010 |
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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| 10. The Europeans of the Year | December 2, 2010 |
Two crisis managers – Kristalina Georgieva and Jean-Claude Trichet – were among the winners of the EVawards, beating a field that reflected the turbulent nature of the... |
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| 11. Robert Cooper appointed EEAS councellor | December 2, 2010 |
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Former British diplomat and director-general in the Council of Ministers joins the EU's diplomatic corps. | |
| 12. Talks on 2011 budget break down | November 12, 2010 |
Prospect of a budget freeze rise, with national ministers and MEPs set for last-ditch talks on Monday. Negotiations on the EU's budget for 2011 broke down last night after a... |
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| 13. Budget deadlock 'puts billions in funding at risk' | November 12, 2010 |
Budgets commissioner says member states and MEPs must reach a deal on 2011 budget in final round of talks. MEPs and member states were today warned that failure to end the... |
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| 14. Staffing rows threaten to delay EEAS launch | October 7, 2010 |
MEPs block funding for new posts and Ashton aide says MEPs ‘acting in irresponsible manner'. The prospects of the European External Action Service (EEAS) being launched on... |
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| 15. A Eurocratic law: too many chiefs | July 29, 2010 |
How many senior management posts is too many? Ingebord Grässle, a German centre-right MEP, is frequently interesting and entertaining, even though she is not always as... |
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| 16. Midwife at EEAS's birth | July 1, 2010 |
Belgium will adopt a low-key approach to foreign policy. The first major foreign policy event planned for the Belgian presidency will take place only after the summer break,... |
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| 17. Questions that remain about the EEAS | July 1, 2010 |
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The EEAS deal provides some important safeguards, but issues such as control of the budget development remain. With the political agreement on the European External Action... | |
| 18. Ashton strikes deal with MEPs on EEAS | June 21, 2010 |
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Meeting in Madrid resolves main outstanding questions over diplomatic service.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has reached agreement with the... | |
| 19. Old headache, new problems | June 17, 2010 |
The Commission's role in financing civilian crisis missions has been causing problems for years. João Vale de Almeida, the director-general for external relations, placed... |
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| 20. Ashton ‘close' to deal with MEPs on EU diplomatic corps | June 10, 2010 |
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Foreign policy chief wants agreement in June but Parliamentary scrutiny remains problematic. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, expects to secure a... | |