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MEPs set to flex muscles over Brussels posts
Five years ago, MEPs unexpectedly forced the European Commission president to drop one of his nominees. They are expected to demand even more this time
Companies set to defy EU accounting rule delay
Four companies say that they are looking to use the so-called IFRS 9 rules as ‘proforma’ accounts for 2010 and may begin to prepare the numbers for internal use for this year end
Barroso vows to resist jockeying for jobs
President aims to ignore lobbying from member states as he begins final deliberations over the composition of the next European Commission
Brussels charges TV tube manufacturers
European Commission authorities have sent formal cartel charges to companies in the cathode-ray tube industry
Editorial Comment: Barroso must resist national bullying
The Commission president and the parliament should co-operate to ensure that Europe gets the representatives it deserves.
EU competition officials raid CEZ offices
Brussels confirms that ‘unannounced inspections’ took place at the offices of CEZ on suspicions that the Czech energy utility may have acted illegally to push up electricity prices and exclude competitors
EU members vie for pivotal Brussels posts
Big countries seek heavyweight economic portfolios as closing date nears for nominations to the next European Commission
Van Rompuy leaves hole in Belgian politics
Belgians’ delight at seeing their prime minister elevated to the presidency of the EU is laced with concerns over what his departure from might mean for their own union
Brussels drops Qualcomm antitrust probe
Europe’s top competition regulator ends an inquiry into patent royalty rates charged by the US mobile chipmaker after the remaining companies that had brought a complaint withdrew
Opinion: Europe needs action, not quiet consensus
The identity and stature of the new president and foreign policy chief will hardly matter if the European Union cannot meet the big economic challenges it faces, writes Peter Mandelson
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Van Rompuy is the right man for the job

Belgian leadership consists of bringing consensus to a fractious coalition, exactly what the president of the EU has to do, writes Wolfgang Münchau
Modesty would become Europe’s new duo
Europe needs less bargaining and more sobriety as it prepares to choose the new leadership of the European Union, writes Jacques Delors











