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Unfavourable verdict from staff tribunal, but EPSO rules out return to pen and paper, The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is to persist with computer-based...

Draft proposal on recruitment to the EU's diplomatic corps sets out to change existing rules. The European Commission has set out the terms on which those aspiring for jobs...

Different visions of the Parliamant's spending. Compare and contrast. Bart Staes, the Green MEP who is preparing a report on the European Parliament's spending, has asked...

The EU's institutional reforms are an opportunity to address the shortcomings of both its foreign and development policies. Your editorial “Finding the right role for...

Reserve lists are sure to provoke a rush for talent. A reward of sorts for any European Commission directors-general and directors still at their desks in the dog-days of...

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The European Commission yesterday (18 July) promoted Katarína Mathernová, a 43-year-old Slovak, to the post of deputy director-general (DDG) for regional policy, at one...

What are they up to, the Com­mis­sion delegations abroad? Some 700 officials are scattered across the globe, in 123 countries at the last count. They work in offices...

On 1 January, Irish is supposed to become an official EU language. But the recruitment of translators to work in the Irish language is not going very smoothly. A recruitment...

Grybauskaite might be happy to observe that EPSO, the recruitment office of the EU institutions, published details of a competition for staff from the ten new EU states on 25...

Never mind the European Champions' League final, the great footballing contest of recent days was the Schuman trophy, a competition between different directorates-general...

The recruitment to the ranks of European Commission staff of citizens from the EU's new member states has broken through the 1,000 mark. But the Commission itself admits...

The selection of staff for pre-accession auxiliary posts (EPSO) at the European Commission has proven to be not nearly as transparent as the actual concept of a database,...

THE European Parliament could encounter lengthy delays in hiring staff needed to cope with the EU's eastward enlargement unless swift progress is made on forming a new...

l Hold more competitions for specialists based on better identification of Commission's needs Use computer-based pre-selection to reduce numbers applying for general...

THE Union's three main institutions are preparing to pool their recruitment procedures and hand over management of the complex process to an outside professional office. The...

Commission and Parliament offices in the member states are a vital link in the EU chain. Rory Watson reportsBEFORE the European Commission released its voluminous Agenda 2000...

THE European Commission is bracing itself to handle tens of thousands of applications as it prepares to hold its first major recruitment competition for five years. The...

THEY hold some of the most coveted jobs in Europe, envied for their generous pay packets, supposedly glamorous life-styles and privileged position as participants in the EU...