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The selection of a new European Commission, never the simplest of political tasks, will this year be more complex than ever. Politically and institutionally, 2009 contains a whole range of permutations regarding the ‘how?’, ‘when?’ and ‘who?’ of the next EU executive.
On the institutional plane, the Irish must vote again on the Lisbon [...]

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After weeks of deliberation, the European Parliament is still divided on whether to hold a vote on the new Commission president under the Nice Treaty or wait until the outcome of the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which [...]

This story was first published on 9th June 2009 by EurActiv.com.
Just hours after the EU election results were known, leading MEPs began to discuss ‘grand’ political alliances for appointing the next European Commission and Parliament presidents.
Joseph Daul, the chairman of the centre-right EPP-ED group, threw down the gauntlet yesterday (8 June), by proposing a grand [...]

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The European school system “might soon collapse” if not reformed, European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas told a public hearing in Brussels last week (19 March), citing “alarming signs” like lack of teachers, cumbersome decision-making procedures and governments’ unwillingness to invest in infrastructure.
Acknowledging that reforming the European school system is a “delicate subject”, Vice-President [...]

The European Union spent €2.4bn last year on “biased information campaigns” to “promote itself and its central aim of ‘ever closer union’,” alleges a new study by Open Europe, a UK-based think tank. But the report’s findings were denied by the European Commission, which said it “makes no apologies” for supporting schemes such as the [...]