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Commissioners new and old will have to share office space. There are times when the European Parliament's palace in Strasbourg is just not big enough. Both the European...

Former lawyer proud of his time as commissioner. The car industry, the Canadian government and Maltese heron hunters will be among those not sorry to see him go. But...

The idea of a dedicated climate-change commissioner is a gimmick that could become a dangerous Trojan horse. As Troy once did, the EU's environment policy appears pretty...

Who has had the environment on their mind the longest? As the Copenhagen showdown approaches, nearly every commissioner is talking almost non-stop about ‘climate crisis'....

Election result spells the end for Greek commissioner. This week's victory for the Socialists in Greece spells the end of Stavros Dimas's career in the European Commission....

Stavros Dimas has an uncertain future in the Commission. One casualty of Costas Karamanlis's decision to hold a snap election in the middle of a recession could be Stavros...

What does the future hold for the Commission's flagship environment event? To misuse the title of a recent bestseller on climate change, Green Week 2009 was hot, crowded but...

The Commission's star bloggers. Is there any honour in being the second and third most popular bloggers in the European Commission? There are now seven blogs that go out in...

European Voice readers select Bulgaria's European commissioner for her role as consumer champion; ECB's president wins award as ‘most valued European'. Meglena Kuneva...

Package's impact on industry and consumers particularly concerns German deputies. German centre-right MEPs are trying to delay negotiations over the EU's proposed climate...

Plan to subject all manufactured goods to green-design standards radically cut. The European Commission is to propose a modest expansion of the European Union's laws on...

Stavros Dimas is blogging for Europe from the climate change negotiations in Bali. Or at least somebody is on his behalf. In an entry this week he refers to the leader of the...

Stavros Dimas has finally got the courage to say what many people in the European Union think and whom he needs to protect: that the possible risks for the environment of...

Stavros Dimas drove back from Strasbourg last week in a new green car. Although actually more silver in colour, the environment commis-sioner's Toyota Prius had the green...

Those trying to work out who won and who lost during the in-fighting in the European Commission over proposals to set binding targets for emissions from cars, should take...

Last week Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen set out a ten-point plan to reconcile the seemingly contradictory priorities of tackling climate change...

No one had great hopes for the environment when the current Commission took office in November 2004. President José Manuel Barroso quickly made it clear that jobs and...

Günter Verheugen has launched a surprising – and very public – attack on senior officials in the European Commission who, he says, have far too much power and decide...

European commissioners are scheduled to meet again on 30 August, six weeks after their last College meeting. Any European citizens inclined to lie awake worrying that Europe...

Did Stavros Dimas pack a bulletproof vest next to his toothbrush on a trip to Helsinki last week (4 May)? The last time the environment commissioner was involved with the...