European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy

In the land of the euros, the one eyed man is king. [antoin@eire.com]

Simon McGarr writes about adventures in the world of the European Movement. I do not think it is quite factual to say that Margot Wallstrom, the VP of the Commission (whom everyone in Ireland insisted in calling ‘Margo’ in...

Barroso: Shut the hell up

If there's one thing absolutely guaranteed to put back the European Union cause in the UK, it's having some unelected Brussels bureaucrat mouth off about how the country is “closer than ever before” to joining the single...

Conference on the 'Most favoured European woman clause'

Donderdag 27 november 2008 | EU Voorzitterschap Frankrijk ] Leading EU feminists and politicians will exchange views at the conference on the 'Most favoured European woman clause', which aims to identify the most progressive...

Stimulating economies and bloggers brains

Image via Wikipedia Back from Brussels where I took part in a press trip organised by the European Commission representation in Ireland.* You'll be reading a lot in the coming days about a Financial Stimulus package proposed by...

‘You can’t stop the world and let Ireland off’?

Image by TPCOM via FlickrThis is a new phrase I learnt which is in use by the European Movement referring to Ireland's choices on EU membership at the moment. . (When I heard it first it gave me memories of school bus tours and...

Women and European politics: no democracy without equality!

Women make up half the EU electorate: logically we should account for half the elected politicians and half the top-level policy-makers too. But we don't. Most governments in Europe are largely made up of men.

Borg tops in Sweden power rankings

New feature Double click on a word to get a translation Finance minister Anders Borg has surpassed prime minister Borg’s top ranking comes from the weekly Swedish news magazine Fokus, which published its annual list of Sweden’s...

Ask an EU Commissioner a question

Tonight you get a chance to ask questions of the EU commissioner in charge of how the EU talks to it's citizens. Margot Wallström is Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Institutional Relations and...

Government receives another standing count

EU Commissioner Margot Wallström reminded her various audiences today that the Irish Government will be reporting to the EU commission/council of ministers next month about how it proposes to solve the Lisbon problem. As...

Ireland must resist EU bullying on treaty, says Wallstrom

By Fionnan Sheahan Political Editor Friday November 14 2008 Nobody in the EU wants to renegotiate the Lisbon Treaty and Ireland should resist any attempts to bully it, the European Commission's second-in-command said yesterday....

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