European Commission
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European Union: Reducing the democratic deficit
19 June 2013144 51 The Guardian London -
Hungary: ‘Everybody to pay for new austerity measures’
19 June 201341 2PresseuropNépszava -
European Commission: Who still listens to Brussels?
5 June 2013168 9 El País Madrid -
Economy: Spring austerity
30 May 201379 1 Le Soir Brussels -
Eurozone: The troika pulls its separate ways
22 May 2013317 17 Le Monde Paris -
European Commission: Member states want to keep their commissioners
21 May 201372 14PresseuropDer Spiegel -
European Union: ‘BP and Shell raided over allegations of petrol-price fixing’
15 May 2013113PresseuropThe Independent -
“Dalligate” : ‘We have a ‘bomb’ — Green MEPs’
8 May 201336 2PresseuropThe Malta Independent -
France: ‘Europe urges France to undertake ‘far reaching’ reforms’
8 May 201338 13PresseuropLe Figaro -
European Elections: Reinforce the European Parliament, not the Commission
2 May 2013280 17 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Corruption and transparency: European Parliament hamstrings Dalligate probe
12 April 2013256 2PresseuropMediapart -
International Women's Day: Too many men at the top of the EU
8 March 201373 5PresseuropLa Croix -
Competitiveness: Bribery is no way to reform Europe
8 February 201392 37 Financial Times London -
Debt crisis: Troika divided over austerity
29 January 2013134 13PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
European Commision: Dalligate: MEPs call for an inquest
10 January 201369 2PresseuropDe Morgen -
European Commission: The drug the EU decided to ignore
9 January 2013174 1PresseuropLibération -
European Union: Brussels is recruiting
4 January 2013402 2PresseuropDie Welt -
Tobacco: Brussels unveils new restrictions
19 December 201258 2PresseuropLa Libre Belgique, Les Echos, La Stampa -
Euro: Autumn in Brussels
30 November 201225 Der Standard Vienna -
European Commission: Big Tobacco at home in Brussels
30 November 2012293 12 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
EU Budget: Commission is nowhere to be seen
23 November 2012233 25 Coulisses de Bruxelles Brussels -
European Commission: Borg impresses MEPs as police grill Dalli
14 November 201212 3PresseuropThe Times of Malta -
Profile: Olli Rehn, austere guardian of budgetary discipline
9 November 201288 22 Les Echos Paris -
Editorial: Need for transparency
9 November 201220 1Presseurop -
EU- China: Solar wars?
2 November 2012115 37PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Kosovo: EU mission too expensive and inefficient
31 October 201261 7PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Figaro -
European Commission: Commissioner Dalli’s resignation raises questions
22 October 201222 2PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Banks: Brussels wants to separate commercial from investment banking
2 October 2012102 8PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Institutions: “Future of Europe Group” presents federal proposals
18 September 201274 19PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Institutions : Barroso utters the dreaded word
13 September 2012124 85PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet, Der Standard, România libera & 2 others -
Banking Union: Make ECB Europe’s bank watchdog, says Brussels
31 August 201233 16PresseuropFinancial Times, Les Echos -
Institutions: Barroso takes advantage of the crisis
19 July 201238 3PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Institutions: There’s a place for euro-heretics too
19 July 2012137 18 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Romania and Bulgaria: Bucharest and Sofia, still incorrigible for Commission
18 July 201277 8PresseuropRomânia libera, Adevărul, Sega & 2 others -
European Commission: EU wants to simplify drug tests on humans
18 July 201293 8PresseuropBerliner Zeitung -
European Union: Power struggle for control of banks
16 July 201250 5PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Music: Radiohead against the Commission
12 July 201285 2PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Schengen Area : Member states draw MEPs’ ire
15 June 201242 37PresseuropDilema Veche -
EU economic scoresheet: As crisis worsens, Brussels still in denial
31 May 2012330 86 The Guardian London -
European Commission: Growth must still be funded...somehow
9 May 201245 12PresseuropLes Echos -
Internet: Personal data vacuum cleaner
22 March 201247 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Institutions: Maastricht 20 years on: Eurocrat blues
6 February 2012210 11 Le Temps Geneva -
European Commission: Santer returns to the fold
25 January 201238 4PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Food: Europe’s mountain of leftovers
20 January 2012207 4PresseuropEl País -
Hungary-EU: Brussels starts power struggle with Orbán
18 January 201291 8PresseuropNépszabadság, Magyar Nemzet, Népszava -
European Union: Myth of equality at an end
17 January 2012220 149 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Euro: The birth of the divine currency
26 December 201154 Neues Deutschland Berlin -
Editorial: Elect the Commission
16 December 201167 3Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis: Van Rompuy and Barroso to the rescue
7 December 201118 3PresseuropEl País -
Who’s afraid of Germany? (4): Merkel’s Nein is wrecking the EU
24 November 2011260 16 Die Tageszeitung Berlin
Big decisions affecting how EU member states function are taken by top ministers and heads of government, and handed down by the unelected “troika” of the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. But national parliaments can help make European institutions more accountable. 
Over the years, the European Commission’s recommendations to member states on how to push through economic reforms have proliferated. National leaders, though, bow more readily to market pressures and provisions of bailout plans, all of which undermines the authority and credibility of the EU executive. 
Hitched together at the outset of the Greek crisis, the three-part team of the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission did the heavy pulling in the bailouts of European countries in crisis. Since then, though, strains among the three institutions have grown more severe. 
With what will likely be the automatic appointment of the next European Commission President, the result of May 2014 European elections should endow the Brussels executive with greater legitimacy. But is this desirable, wonders a Swedish columnist. 
The EU should set its own economic goals and pursue them, writes the director of the Bruegel think-tank Jean Pisani-Ferry. 
The resignation of Health Commissioner John Dalli last month lifted the lid on the influence of the tobacco industry in the European Commission. That influence has even penetrated OLAF, Europe's anti-fraud office, writes Der Spiegel. 
Everyone has forgotten that the European executive prepared the budget which is currently being negotiated by European leaders. And there is a simple reason for this: Commission President José Manuel Barroso has become invisible. Libération’s Brussels correspondent deplores what he describes as a political “suicide”. 
Popular in his home country of Finland and much feared elsewhere in Europe, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs maintains a low profile. However, with the introduction of new supervisory rules for budgets, his emerging role as a key player in Europe’s economic governance will make it difficult for him to avoid the limelight. 
In proposing a federation of nation states, the President of the European Commission has outlined an ambitious course of development for the EU. For the European press, however, such an initiative inevitably raises questions about the role of Brussels and the role of member states. 
MEPs and public servants in Brussels are frequently stereotyped as members of a “religion”. This is because they live in a blanket pro-European environment, writes a Dutch journalist. But different voices are now being heard. 
Two reports published on July 18 by the European Commission regarding the rule of law in Romania and in Bulgaria, both of which joined the EU in 2007, stress both countries' lack of democracy and poor records in the fight against crime. These two findings have sparked a debate in the both their national presses. 
Despite clear evidence that its austerity policies are driving struggling members into ever deeper economic agony, the European Commission presented its annual economic report on May 30 seeking to defend a strategy that is bankrupt, argues the Guardian’s economics editor. 
The European Commission and its civil servants gained unprecedented powers with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on February 7 1992. Two decades later, the economy’s primacy over politics and the advent of the crisis has destroyed their dreams and turned them into scapegoats. 
After quibbling for several weeks, the European Commission launched three legal actions against the Hungarian government. But who will back down first – Budapest or Brussels? The Hungarian press is not expecting any great changes. 
Whether it’s the planned European treaty, the S&P downgrade of nine eurozones states or reprimands issued to Hungary, recent events in the EU have highlighted how powerful countries are now imposing their law on their smaller neighbours. Polish columnist Jacek Żkowski aims to set the record straight. 
Alone against all, the Chancellor says ‘No’ to a supporting mandate for the ECB and ‘No’ to common euro bonds. In Germany too, more and more experts are warning that her firm stance on discipline and rules is plunging the eurozone into chaos. - 1 of 4
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