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María Rosa Aldea Busquets, head of the unit for treasury management in the European Commission's budget department, has been appointed director for budget execution in the...

Jean-Claude Thébault has been appointed as the head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), the in-house think-tank of the president of the European...

President of the European Council makes his mark. Herman Van Rompuy, who will take office on 1 January as the first permanent president of the European Council, wants to...

Europe will move from being a power in the world to a world power only when the member states show the will for such a change. The reaction to the European Council's...

MEPs should take their time when approving a new Commission. The collective sigh of relief breathed by the European Union institutions on Tuesday, when Czech President...

European Parliament president says finding a female candidate would be ‘easy'. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament, today called on EU leaders to...

Finland's president and a former commissioner should the top posts created by the Lisbon treaty. Reading the various articles in your issue of 8 October about the top posts...

A "good day for Europe", but Czechs and Poles still need to ratify. The leadership of the European Union today welcomed the result of Ireland's referendum on the Lisbon...

This could be a summer of frustration and uncertainty. For most people, the summer break is a time for reflection and planning. For politicians, it is an opportunity to...

Sweden's prime minister says that small and medium-sized EU member states do not want a strong president of the European Council. The European Union's small and medium-sized...

Two rule-books complicate an always intricate political game. Uncertainty over the rules that will govern the formation of the next European Commission is complicating...

Uncertainty over the fate of the Lisbon treaty could keep current Commission in place until the end of the year. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European...

French proposal would result in a Parliament with 754 MEPs from 2010; deal also outlines means of managing transition to new form of presidency. Part of an emerging deal...

Ireland voted by 53.4% to 46.6% to reject the Treaty of Lisbon. The vote calls at least a temporary halt to the reforms that the treaty would have introduced. So if the...

The balance of power in the European Union is shifting more towards the European Council – and the elite member states that control it. An image engraved on my memory is...

In last week's Entre Nous (31 October-7 November) we said that, under the Lisbon treaty, the president of the European Parliament would not have the right to vote. The treaty...

One of the unusual features of the Hampton Court summit was that Josep Borrell was present throughout. The custom of EU summits has been for the national leaders to tolerate...

With less than two months to go before the Convention on the future of Europe reports with its final conclusions to EU leaders, there are ominous signs that it may fail to...

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has been forced to backtrack on several aspects of his blueprint for the future of Europe after marathon negotiations within the Convention's...