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UK deputy prime minister "bitterly disappointed" by UK decision, pledges to work to defend British interests. Nick Clegg, the UK's deputy prime minister and leader of the...

Bruising budget talks lie ahead. Fans of rugby, cage fighting and other violent sports are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Jon Cunliffe as the UK's next permanent...

Former European Commissioner is still in demand. Leon Brittan, the former European commissioner for trade, will next week take up a six-month appointment as an adviser on...

Some familiar faces come to the fore. In the aftermath of the UK general election, some of the backstage participants in the campaigns came to the fore – and they proved...

Nick Clegg, a former MEP, to be deputy prime minister; William Hague, a Eurosceptic, to serve as foreign minister. David Cameron, the leader of the UK Conservatives, will...

All eyes are on the former MEP who leads the UK's Liberal Democrats. The EU was initially absent from the UK's general election campaign, but all that changed last Thursday...

Surprise, it's a UK general election. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown confirmed this week what everyone had known for a long time: that the UK will have a general election on...

Robert Madelin has been appointed new head of the Commission's information society and media department. Robert Madelin has been appointed the European Commission's...

Robert Madelin, the European Commission's director-general for health and consumers, is to become director-general for information society and media, replacing Fabio...

ALLOWING the US to export 30,000 tonnes of poultry meat to the EU, 0.3% of its total consumption, may not seem much of a breakthrough in a transatlantic trade relationship...

Brussels, 13 November 1997A FIERCE internal battle is still raging within the European Commission over updated rules for approving the use of genetically-modified products,...

Next week Louis Michel goes on holiday from his day-job as European commissioner for development and humanitarian aid. He is taking a month's leave of absence to campaign in...

Brussels, 10 April 1997THE European Commission is facing calls to publish an annual report on its members' attendance record at their weekly official meetings.The demand for...

Christiaan Smits has become EU affairs manager for AIG Companies, in Europe and the Confederation of Independent States. He joins from the Comité Européen des...

In many of the areas of policy in which the EU operates collectively, as opposed to through the individual member states, it has acquired the power to do so over time. But...

A complaint arrives from the lobby group smallbusinesseurope (small letters obligatory). Created in 2001 as “an EU SME liaison point”, smallbusinesseurope (whose patron...

Is GPlus Europe, the Brussels public affairs consultancy, becoming the rest-home of choice for exhausted commissioners' spokesmen? Set up in 2000 by two ex-mouthpieces of...

G is for...making your ex-colleagues green with envy. It was December 2000 when Peter Guilford and Nigel Gardner, two former spokesmen for onetime European trade...

The European Commission has appointed its first-ever female secretary-general as part of a wide-ranging shake-up of senior officials. Irishwoman Catherine Day, who has for...

Arancha González, who was spokesperson for Pascal Lamy in the latter years of his time as trade commissioner, is to go with him to the World Trade Organization. Currently a...