Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Commission" produced 21 items.
| 1. Ashton shows her hand | April 1, 2010 |
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As Catherine Ashton presents her proposal for the EU's diplomatic service, member states get ready to fight over jobs. In the end, the timing of the presentation of the... |
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| 2. Movers & shakers | December 18, 2008 |
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| 3. Opposition mounts against Barroso's farm-aid scheme | September 11, 2008 |
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Legal doubts over taking money from the CAP; proposal might not meet budgetary procedure. Commission President José Manuel Barroso's proposal to transfer €1... | |
| 4. School visits, injuries and jogging | April 24, 2008 |
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Old-school revenge. Here is a salutary lesson for all those keen EU officials who are preparing to mark Schuman Day (9 May) by visiting schools to talk about their work and... |
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| 5. Business warns against fines for hiring illegal workers | October 31, 2007 |
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BusinessEurope, the European employers' organisation, has warned that a European Commission proposal to impose financial and criminal penalties on those who hire illegal... | |
| 6. Rehn's Turkey tactics | December 7, 2006 |
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Underlying the Commission's proposal last week to suspend negotiations with Turkey (at least partially) was some fancy footwork.When the Finnish government, in its role as... | |
| 7. Movers & Shakers | April 20, 2006 |
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Hervé Carré, deputy director-general in the Commission's department of economic and monetary affairs, has been appointed to head Eurostat, the Commission's... | |
| 8. Wallstrom meets residents' asscotiation | December 1, 2005 |
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The European Union's information centre at 14, Rond Point Schuman hosted on Monday (28 November) an entertaining lecture by Philippe Van Parijs, professor at the... | |
| 9. Big Reijo to talk down to Brits | June 23, 2005 |
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The improbably tall Finn Reijo Kemppinen, sometime spokesman for then Commission president Romano Prodi, became head of the Commission's representation in Helsinki but never... | |
| 10. The Green CEO | March 24, 2005 |
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Volvo Way sounds as though it should be the name of an English suburban street. Instead it is the title of a small influential booklet issued to all new employees of the... | |
| 11. Havana snubs Union envoy to Cuba, reveals Nielson | March 11, 2004 |
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FIDEL Castro's regime has stalled on accepting the credentials of the EU's envoy to Cuba, according to Development Commissioner Poul Nielson. Miguel Amado, head of the... | |
| 12. Anti-fraud investigators swoop on Vienna offices | July 4, 2002 |
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COMPUTERS and documents held by the European Commission's office in Austria have been seized by the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF. Investigators have also quizzed a number of... | |
| 13. MEP calls for Commission to explain | May 2, 2002 |
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DANISH Socialist MEP Torben Lund has called on Romano Prodi to explain the sudden removal of Steffen Smidt as the Commission's top fisheries official. In a letter sent this... | |
| 14. Giscard d'Estaing denies 'outrageous' wage demands | January 31, 2002 |
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VALERY Giscard d'Estaing has denied that he demanded a salary of 20,000 euro a month for heading the European Union's new Convention. The 75-year-old former French president... | |
| 15. Race is on for top reform job | April 27, 2000 |
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The former deputy head of ex-Commission President Jacques Santer's private office, Maria Pia Filippone, is being tipped to slip into the newly-created position of European... | |
| 16. Kinnock curls up with a good book | February 3, 2000 |
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Visitors to Commission Vice-President Neil Kinnock's office in the dingy internal administration building in Rue Montoyer can amuse themselves while waiting to see the great... | |
| 17. Fax signature is null and void | April 23, 1998 |
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It seems the lack of information over the EU-ACP meeting is not the only instance of the Parliament getting its wires crossed. The head of Commission President Jacques... | |
| 18. 14 October Ecofin | October 17, 1996 |
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FINANCE ministers finally laid to rest the proposal from Commission President Jacques Santer for extra funding for five high-speed rail Trans-European networks (TENs). After... | |
| 19. 28-29 April Employment Round Table | May 2, 1996 |
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THE two-day round table held to discuss Commission President Jacques Santer's proposal for a ‘confidence pact' on employment ended with few concrete results. But Santer,... | |
| 20. LETTERS | April 25, 1996 |
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From Knut Arne SandenI have noted with great interest Commission President Jacques Santer's proposal to establish a European ‘Confidence Pact' for employment. I think this... | |
