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...Margrethe Vestager, the commissioner in charge of EU competition policy, first relaxed state aid rules in 2020 to help sectors such as airlines and hospitality hit by lockdowns during the pandemic....
...Jacques Delors, the former president of the European Commission and one of the main architects of today’s EU, has died at the age of 98....
...The European commissioner for the environment, oceans and fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, cited the migration of the cod towards colder waters near Russia and Norway as an example of the effect on biodiversity...
...“She’s the most high-profile commission president since Jacques Delors,” said Hix, in reference to the Frenchman who built the single market and initiated EU social policies in the 1980s....
...Other commissioners were consulted, like Leon Brittan in Delors’ day was a very important commissioner and Peter Sutherland in the earlier phase of Delors’ time at the top....
...When the heads of cabinets of the EU’s 27 commissioners huddled in the Belgian countryside in late August for their back-to-work retreat, all were invited to talk about what they thought should be the priority...
...Such is the rosy picture painted by commissioners and bureaucrats. Talk to businesses and you hear a different story....
...“Ukraine is putting huge political, diplomatic and moral pressure on the EU to accelerate,” said Sébastien Maillard of the Institut Jacques Delors....
...President Jacques Chirac in 2005 invited much international mockery for his “strategic yoghurt policy”, threatening to block a hostile takeover for France’s Danone food company by PepsiCo amid talk of the...
...But Pascal Lamy, a former EU trade commissioner, warned that including rebates would also risk disputes being taken to the WTO, which prohibit aid to support exports....
...MEPs’ probes triggered the mass resignation of Jacques Santer’s European Commission in 1999 in what was seen as a coming-of-age moment for the assembly....
...MEPs pride themselves in holding the European Commission to account — in 1999 they forced Jacques Santer’s commission to resign over corruption allegations. But they largely police themselves....
...She is already the most powerful commission president since Jacques Delors, who wrapped up a consequential decade at the helm in 1995, argues Peter Ludlow, an EU historian and analyst....
...But European trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told Europe Express BORIC had backed the deal....
...The Juukan Gorge incident cost several executives, including Stausholm’s predecessor Jean-Sébastien Jacques, their jobs....
...“Brexit has had a negative impact on many people’s lives,” Elisa Ferreira, commissioner for cohesion and reforms, said in a statement....
...In a paper published on Wednesday, Lucas Guttenberg at the Jacques Delors Centre addresses the ESM-shaped elephant in the room: Why are countries allergic to using the fund, and what can be done to restore...
...Lionel Jospin did so badly in the 2002 presidential election that he failed to make the second round, allowing Jean-Marie Le Pen of the extreme-right Front National to compete in the run-off against Jacques...
...Last year, the government asked Jacques Biot, former head of France’s Ecole Polytechnique engineering school, to examine the issue of drug shortages and recommend solutions....
...European commissioners will meet on Thursday to discuss the latest proposals....
...One of the most influential Friedman adherents remains Republican SEC commissioner Hester Peirce....
...Ursula von der Leyen delivered a stark message to the EU’s commissioners on Thursday evening at their first in-person meeting for many weeks....
...The conservative European commissioner Arthur Cockfield worked with the then-commission president Jacques Delors to put in place a single market by 1992....
...A former French economy minister under Jacques Chiraq, Mr Breton has stepped down as chairman of Atos and sold all his company shares in preparation for a job which will involve pioneering sweeping EU legislation...
...One party official celebrated Breton, a former minister under Jacques Chirac, as “one of ours”....
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