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LIZ COLLETT
As the go-to source in Brussels for independent advice on how to make a migration policy work, Collett has a unique achievement to her name: avoiding being tarred with a political brush amid Europe’s...
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FEDERICA MOGHERINI
As the EU’s foreign policy supremo, Mogherini is often Brussels’ public face on the world stage. At 43, she is the youngest of the EU’s top office-holders, having previously been the youngest G7...
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MAGDA STOCZKIEWICZ
Stoczkiewicz has opinions on everything from TTIP to glyphosate to carbon emissions, and she’s happy to make them known in every imaginable forum as she casts herself as a defender of fundamental...
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MEDIA MOGULS
Brussels is home to the biggest accredited press corps in the world, and some of the biggest organizations in that group — POLITICO, Euractiv and EU Observer — have formidable women at the helm....
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MICHELLE SUTTON
Sutton is a policy wonk with capacity to absorb vast amounts of information and apply it pragmatically. She helped keep Neelie Kroes on track in the early years of the former Dutch commissioner’s stint...
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EU PANEL WATCH
Event organizers in Brussels, who frequently arrange all-male panels at debates and conferences, are increasingly hearing from EU Panel Watch. The group of young female professionals, organized by...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: COCKTAIL CLASH — TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS —...
BREXIT BAR FIGHT: Catherine Bearder, the British MEP in charge of catering matters in the Parliament’s Bureau, got into a scrape Tuesday with a fellow quaestor, Polish MEP Bogusław Liberadzki, over...
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Tusk knocked off balance by Polish broadside
Donald Tusk isn’t likely to be dislodged from the helm of the European Council by his Polish nemesis Jarosław Kaczyński, according to senior EU government officials. But the concerted political assault...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: Guess who’s plotting at dinner?
Even before British Prime Minister Theresa May set a course for a “hard Brexit,” Brussels was already digging in for a fight. At one of their regular dinner gatherings earlier this month, Commission...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: Can you believe this guy?
Can you believe this Guy? The European Parliament’s committee chairs are fuming over the fact that Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, was chosen...
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Kristalina Georgieva to quit Commission for World Bank job
Kristalina Georgieva resigned Friday as vice president of the European Commission to take a job as CEO of the World Bank, after becoming frustrated by the workings at the highest level of the...
View ArticleEU, Canada to sign trade accord Sunday
The European Union and Canada will sign the CETA trade agreement Sunday, after a weeks-long deadlock. European Council President Donald Tusk announced in a tweet Friday evening that a summit has been...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: For the love of country or Parliament? —...
For the love of country or Parliament? The race for the European People’s Party nomination for European Parliament president is looking like a dead heat between French MEP Alain Lamassoure and Irish...
View ArticleKristalina Georgieva to quit Commission for World Bank job
Kristalina Georgieva resigned Friday as vice president of the European Commission to take a job as CEO of the World Bank, after becoming frustrated by the workings at the highest level of the...
View ArticleGünther Oettinger’s most embarrassing gaffes, insults and slurs
Günther Oettinger Monday defended his use of “slant eyes” in a description of Chinese officials made to a German business audience last week. But it wasn’t the first time Germany’s European...
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MEPs dig their heels in over Oettinger
It’s hardly the orderly transition of power Jean-Claude Juncker might have hoped for. The president of the European Commission’s plan to install Günther Oettinger as European commissioner for budget...
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Günther Oettinger: ‘There is nothing to apologize for’
Under fire European commissioner Günther Oettinger on Wednesday said “there is nothing to apologize for” in relation to his comments about “slant eyes” Chinese ministers, after being stopped on the...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: Oettinger versus the world — Nigel to the US...
OETTINGER VERSUS THE WORLD: It’s been a bittersweet week for European Commissioner for Digital Economy Günther Oettinger. Jean-Claude Juncker offered him a promotion — becoming a vice president and...
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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: TRUMP REACTION — WAR ON FOIE GRAS —...
Reaction to President-elect Trump: an EU sampler platter Europe’s top leaders offered mainly sober congratulations to Donald Trump on his U.S. election victory Wednesday, clearly hoping for the best...
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