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MEPS have attacked the Prodi administration as being "more secretive" than the Santer Commission after a decision to gag officials from speaking freely to the Parliament over...

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DESPITE European Commissioner Pascal Lamy's focus on launching a new multilateral trade round, EU negotiators continue to spend many of their daylight hours - and night-time...

José Manuel Silva Rodriguez may not have landed one of the world's most glamorous jobs, but as director-general of the European Commission's giant agriculture division...

European Commission President Romano Prodi must be regretting the day he trumpeted his decision to end the practice of 'flagging' certain top posts within the institution for...

Spain has increased its tally of top-flight director-general jobs in the Commission with the decision to appoint José Rodrigues Silva to step into the shoes of Guy...

While the hunt continues for a successor to Guy Legras as director-general of agriculture, Entre Nous learns that changes may be imminent in the private office of...

THE much-heralded shake-up of top posts in the European Commission this week was billed in advance as a break with the past because it would end the old practice of...

PRESIDENT Romano Prodi has won the first round of his battle to improve the running of the European Commission by ensuring jobs are awarded on the basis of merit and senior...

The Commissioners' joint decision to refrain from making political declarations after their resignation was interpreted in radically different ways. Nobody could hold back...

"This success is for Europe and beyond, for the whole world, a message of hope for the future." French President Jacques Chirac praising the deal struck by negotiators in the...

Being a European is what Commission jobs are all about, but being too European can sometimes be a handicap. Take the case of chief spokesman Klaus van der Pas, whose...

WHEN MEPs on the European Parliament's temporary committee of inquiry into BSE meet Commission President Jacques Santer next week to discuss their findings after six months...

EU FARM ministers will next week continue their struggleto place the beef industry on a stable long-term footing, as MEPs prepare to extend their special parliamentary...

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IF they are to work effectively, the European Parliament's committees of inquiry must have the right to insist that witnesses appear, and be guaranteed improved and automatic...

The case of the leaked document has added a bit of spice to the mad cow inquiry now under way at the European Parliament. The special committee of Euro MPs which is trying...

Rumours abound of adastardly plot to unseat DGV1 (agriculture) Director-General Guy Legras, whose future is uncertain following the leak of a letter in his name apparently...