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Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans When Frans Timmermans became the Dutch foreign minister soon after elections last September, diplomats cheered the appointment of one...

Kroes seeks to 'burn the red tape' preventing access to broadband. The European Commission yesterday (26 March) proposed rules aimed at increasing the roll-out of broadband...

Movement in the Commission. We have reached that point in the five-year life-cycle of a European Commission when parachutes are unfurled and ladders are lowered and raised,...

Bernard Cazeneuve attacks Karel De Gucht, Neelie Kroes and Olli Rehn over call to scrap European Parliament's seat in Strasbourg. Bernard Cazeneuve, France's minister for...

Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem Few among the Dutch twitterati and commentariat were surprised when Jeroen Dijsselbloem was appointed last month as chairman of the...

A round-up of the international press on Tuesday, 12 February. The abdication of Pope Benedict XVI dominates the newspapers.  Among the papers with extensive coverage...

Commission to launch strategy aimed at protecting Europe's infrastructure. The European Commission is to urge greater co-operation among member states in tackling...

Fresh investment in cyber security also planned but telecoms companies are concerned over pricing. Proposals to encourage fresh investment in broadband infrastructure and to...

Competition, regulation and investment are vital for our digital future In its editorial last week, European Voice asked me to identify myself and what I stand for. I am...

Why Neelie Kroes should be commended In last week's editorial, European Voice berated Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for the digital agenda, for failing to...

Commissioner seems to have forgotten the good habits from when she was in charge of the competition dossier. Would the real Neelie Kroes please stand up and be identified? Is...

Proposal criticised by independent firms but incumbents want higher charges for access to lines. Independent telecoms companies have condemned a draft recommendation from the...

'Stakeholder dialogue' on controversial topic will begin in early 2013. The European Commission has agreed to revisit the European Union's rules on copyright, opening up what...

Viviane Reding refuses to admit her quotas proposal is watered-down. To say that Viviane Reding has a brass neck would be an understatement. Hers is of titanium, reinforced...

Commission staff complain about data breach in Azerbaijan. Two members of staff of the European Commission have said that their computers were hacked in Azerbaijan while...

Reding makes another attempt to raise the number of women on boards. Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, yesterday (14...

Liberals and Labour agree to form a coalition and to deepen cuts. The two largest parties in the Netherlands have agreed to form a government after six weeks of talks.

Getting the facts straight about Klubádió. On your pages, the Hungarian Media Council suggested that Human Rights Watch was guilty of “double standards, bias and...

Digital agenda commissioner says strategy could create 2.5 million jobs in the EU. Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for the...

The Dutch far-right Freedom Party (PVV) did well enough in the recent elections to create ripples in its European Parliament line-up. The far-right Freedom Party (PVV) of...