Entre nous
Itchy feet in the private offices of the European commissioners are getting itchier.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Perhaps it is just as well that the European Council introduced a permanent full-time president (current holder: Herman Van Rompuy), given what has been happening to the bunch of temps who used to preside over the EU's affairs.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The strike called by EU staff unions last Wednesday was not exactly a howling success.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Maybe the party really is over for the European Union.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Predicting the pace of legal investigation in any member state is notoriously difficult.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Kristian Vigenin wasted no time in getting down to business after his appointment as Bulgaria's foreign minister in the newly installed government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Some people have all the luck.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
The European Commission's decision, announced on Tuesday (4 June), to impose punitive tariffs on imports of Chinese solar panels contained a sting in the tail – and not just for the Chinese.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's high representative for foreign and security policy, has a difficult relationship with photographers in the Brussels press corps.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Myanmar, or Burma as it used to be known, is slowly shedding its previous status of political outcast.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Jens Weidmann, the president of Germany's Bundesbank, is about to have his two days in court – the German constitutional court, which will hold a hearing on 11-12 June to consider the Bundesbank's challenge to the European Central Bank's policy of Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT).
Thursday, 30 May 2013
At his confirmation hearing this week, George Pufan, Romania's nominee to become a member of the European Court of Auditors, narrowly escaped censure from the European Parliament's budgetary-control committee.
Thursday, 30 May 2013
British Liberal MEP Chris Davies returned last week to one of his pet subjects – the subject of pets.
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Why Elio Di Rupo was anxious to leave last week's European Council meeting
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Birute Vesaite's last day at the office.
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Profile
Jutta Urpilainen, as seen by Marco Villard.
Has Jutta Urpilainen, Finland's finance minister, given in to Euroscepticism?
Thursday, 13 June 2013
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Ian Mundell
The European Commission has appointed Christian Danielsson to be its next director-general for enlargement with effect from 1 October.
Tim King
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