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(BRUSSELS) – The European Commission has adopted new rules on how it selects the advisory expert groups which provide external expertise to help inform the policy-making process.Responding to pressure from…

EU opens doors to mark Europe Day

Europe Day logo (BRUSSELS) – The European Union’s main institutions threw open their doors to the public Monday, marking Europe Day, May 9, a celebration of the anniversary of the…

To avoid making EU legislation over-complicated and technical, the Lisbon Treaty introduced a new system to delegate some limited powers to the European Commission. On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s Legal…

By Jeffrey DonovanU.S. President George W. Bush has named Robert Zoellick, a former trade representative and top diplomat as his nominee to head the World Bank.Bush said the 53-year-old Zoellick…

(SOFIA) – Former communist states Bulgaria and Romania celebrated Monday their New Year’s accession to the European Union even as new EU president Germany warned that painful reforms were still…