Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has warned against causing further alarm in the international capital markets by raising “false expectations of a eurozone bail-out package for the debt-strapped Greek government.In a Sunday morning interview on German radio that appears to put her at odds with Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, she insisted that no money has been aske
STRASBOURG Green members of the European parliament stood en masse and held up placards Tuesday in protest against the EU Commission approval of the cultivation of genetically modified potatoes.The deputies help up placards that read For a GMO free Europe as one of their number, Rebecca Harms, berated European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso for last week's decision.German MEP Harms call
Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, called for closer economic co-operation between the European Union’s 27 member states as he unveiled a 10-year plan designed to boost the bloc’s economy.Mr Barroso warned that Europe’s lacklustre economic performance, even before the financial crisis, made the continent’s current way of life unaffordable without reform.
BRU.S LS – The EU rolled out the red carpet Monday for new Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych, on his first foreign trip, hoping to hear that his pro-Russian past won't reverse Kiev's recent turn to the West.Yanukovych, who won disputed elections last month, arrived in Brussels Monday for talks with EU president Herman Van Rompuy, EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and Polish EU parl
Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, came under fire on Monday for appointing a personal aide as the European Union’s ambassador to the US, a decision widely viewed as undermining the authority of Lady Ashton, the EU’s new foreign affairs chief.The controversy was aired at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels where several participants, speaking on the sidelines, expre
The new European Commission has finally been given European Parliament clearance to begin work.Institutional infighting over political concessions and Lisbon ratification delayed this for almost four months, all the while the global economic storm raging.The new Commission faces the task of steadying the EU ship.It is the first EU executive team to enter its five-year term of office (the second f
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the new 27-strong team of European commissioners.Each commissioner had previously faced a hearing in the European Parliament.The Commission is the EU's executive arm, responsible for drafting EU laws and ensuring that the 27 member states comply with the EU treaties.Bulgaria's first nominee, Rumiana Jeleva, failed to convince MEPs abou
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