dinsdag, januari 26, 2010
EP|TV looks back at commission hearings
ast week the hearings of the new EU Commission took place. Europarl|Tv looks back.Also a report on the evaluation of the EP on the Climate talks in Copenhagen.
Labels: Copenhagen, European Commission, European Parliament
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vrijdag, januari 22, 2010
European parliament shows its teeth
fter a full day of negotiations and rumours, Neelie Kroes was approved by the European Parliament as the new European commissioner for the ‘digital agenda’ post on Wednesday night.The tortuous process of her confirmation reflected a new balance of power existing in Brussels since the Treaty of Lisbon became effective last December. José Barroso, chairman of the European commission, will be facing a more powerful European parliament in the next five years. It has already appropriated the right to reject individual commissioners.
Read more >> | nrc.nl - International - European parliament shows its teeth
Labels: European Commission, European Parliament, Kroes
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woensdag, januari 20, 2010
Kroes sails through second parliamentary screening
eelie Kroes has managed to convince MEPs that she is up to the job of commissioner for the EU's 'Digital Agenda', according to MEPs who had the opportunity to quiz the Dutch candidate for a second time.Read more >> | EurActiv
Labels: European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, Kroes
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dinsdag, januari 19, 2010
The European grill
very EU presidency, however carefully planned, always comes up against an unexpected crisis that puts its real capacity for active response to the test. As the Spanish presidency begins, Haiti has become the first test case of the EU's capacity for coordinated foreign policy action.As opposed to the bureaucratic and technical squabbles that have dominated discussion in recent months, we now have a real opportunity to see how coordination is going to work between the stable presidency and the rotational one. At the immediate subpresidential level, on the one side we have Lady Ashton and the Belgian Karel de Gucht; on the other, the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega and the secretary of state for cooperation, Soraya Rodríguez.
Read more >> | The European Council on Foreign Relations | The European grill
Labels: European Commission, European Union, Foreign Policy, Haïti
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vrijdag, januari 15, 2010
Kroes off her game
utch candidate for the European Commission's digital portfolio fails to live up to her reputation.Neelie Kroes went into her hearings for a second term as European commissioner with a handicap that other re-nominees did not have. By the end, the effect of the handicap was all too evident.
Read more >> | Kroes off her game | Policies | EU governance | Commission | European Voice
Labels: EU Policy, European Commission, European Union, Kroes
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