Tag Archives: European Commission

Internal decision-making of the European Commission – A quick guide

By Anda | Published: June 15, 2010
So you (think you) know everything about how the EU works? Mastered the intricacies of codecision? Ah, so you already know it is not called codecision anymore, but ordinary legislative procedure. Good. So you probably already know about all the changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty. We all do. What, of course, we still don’t [...]
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EU geek quiz: What is the Finalisation Written Procedure?

By Anda | Published: June 15, 2010
After officially becoming a EU Girl Geek, I decided to give one more try to our (very infrequent) EU geek quiz series. So, digging deeply, for mere academic purposes,  into the Commission’s internal rules of procedure, as amended in February 2010, I did not have many difficulties in finding some very geeky details. Now, of [...]
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For a cleaner and safer Internet…

By Kosmopolit | Published: April 25, 2010
Cleanternet.org is a campaign to support European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in her plans to introduce a website blocking system in Europe.All European countries must be forced to fight for a cleaner and safer Internet. The video is based on a German zensursula video. The producer of the video made several videos that became famous in [...]
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Web 2.0 for Europe!

By Kosmopolit | Published: January 13, 2010
“Harnessing the power of the Internet for better communication”  – Here is an interesting open letter (in case you have not seen it on twitter…) from the European Commission’s Internet editors and webmasters to Commission President Barroso and incoming Commissioners in which they ask for more web 2.0 in EU institutions… Read it here. I [...]
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Instead of a comment

By Kosmopolit | Published: November 27, 2009
… about the  new European Commission portfolios and the list of proposed candidates, here is a short reminder for the next Commission (and all journalists writing about national ‘winners’ and ‘loosers”): 1. The Commission shall promote the general interest of the Union and take appropriate initiatives to that end. [...] 3. (…) The members of [...]
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New German EU Commissioner: Günther Oettinger

By Kosmopolit | Published: October 24, 2009
The secret has been kept very well. Günther Oettinger was actually not one of the likely candidates. Several other people were thought to have better chances, for example Wolfgang Schäuble, Elmar Brok, Peter Hintze, Peter Altmaier, Roland Koch …even Peer Steinbrück. So who is Günther Oettinger? He is Ministerpräsident (CDU) of Baden-Württemberg and a somewhat [...]
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Peer Steinbrück – The new German EU Commissioner?

By Kosmopolit | Published: September 11, 2009
Just a quick post about the German discussion about the new EU Commissioner. (and a part of our concerted blog campaign). btw: Jan wrote a very useful overview of the state of play in all EU member states. Obviously, there is no real debate about the question who should replace Verheugen since German elections will [...]
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Why Wolfgang Schäuble should not become EU Commissioner!

By Kosmopolit | Published: July 4, 2009
It seems as if my predictions about who will become the new German EU Commissioner were wrong. Spiegel Online reports today that Chancellor Merkel wants to nominate Wolfgang Schäuble, the current German Interior Minister, for the post in Brussels. This is quite a bad choice especially if he aims to get the Justice and Home [...]
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Who will be the next Romanian Commissioner?

By Anda | Published: June 18, 2009
As the (rather temporary) buzz around the EP elections started to diminish, the next big question is popping up in various circles, from political parties headquarters to newspapers and blogs (see the concerted blog action here, here and here): who will be each country’s nominee for the Commissioner position? With the institutional framework governing the [...]
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Stop Barroso – too little too late?

By Kosmopolit | Published: June 17, 2009
Stop Barroso is a nice campaign by the greens with a very funny video (via Anyone but Barroso) .  “In the absence of a firm agenda from him, perhaps we  take this as his programme for government?” asks The European Citizen blog. Although I fully support the campaign and the idea behind it I partly [...]
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