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Ashton will change jobs during Doha summit
Nov 21st, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
Trade commissioner BaronessBaroness Ashton will take up her duties as Europe's new foreign policy chief on 1 December, halfway through a critical summit of world trade ministers in Geneva...
Oracle Purchase of Sun’s MySQL May Remove Competitor, EU Says
Nov 21st, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp.’s planned $7.4 billionpurchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. may be blocked by EuropeanUnion regulators because of concerns Oracle might...
Van Rompuy takes EU presidency
Nov 20th, 2009 - FT
Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton were welcomed by world leaders as Europe’s first full-time president and foreign policy chief, even as a chorus of critics questioned their relatively low profiles on the world stage. Meanwhile...
Calls from Angela Merkel told Tony Blair he would not get EU's top job
Nov 20th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel...
Antigenics pulls European Oncophage application
Nov 20th, 2009 - Boston
LEXINGTON - Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc. said today it will not seek approval for a potential kidney cancer treatment after a European advisory committee recommended against approving the drug candidate.

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European Commission to Open Iceland Office
Iceland and the European Commission on Monday officially signed an agreement that will allow the commission to open an office in Iceland. Within a few weeks, Iceland is expecting to sign off on the formal start of talks on accession to the EU.
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The EU Parliament and the Treaty of Lisbon.
The EU-Parliament and its function within the European Union, explained as easy as possible under consideration of the changes caused by the Treaty of Lisbon, which is not in force yet.
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Barroso: European Union is 'empire' (long version)
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission - the executive body of the EU - likens the union to a empire. He made this comment in response to a question: What will the European Union be in the future? Asked at a press conference in the European Parliament in Strasbourg ...
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Nkunda, Kagame receive European Commission
Belgium's European Commissioner Louis Michel, responsible for development, travelled to Rwanda and the DR Congo in the first week of December 2008 to meet with Rwanda President Paul Kagama and, across the border in the DRC, with rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.

European Commission from WikiPedia:

The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) acts as an executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union.

The Commission operates in the method of cabinet government, with 27 Commissioners. There is one Commissioner per member state, though Commissioners are bound to represent the interests of the EU as a whole rather than their home state. One of the 27 is the Commission President (currently José Manuel Durão Barroso) appointed by the European Council. The Council then appoints the other 26 Commissioners in agreement with the nominated President, and then the 27 Commissioners as a single body are subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament. The present Barroso Commission took office in late 2004 and had approval to serve until 2009.