Luxembourg

Mina Andreeva will be one of the three main spokespeople for EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

Andreeva previously had the same position at the administration of outgoing EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding.

Dimitris Avramopoulos was on Wednesday appointed European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs as incoming Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced who gets which job in his team.

The new 28-strong Commission team was unveiled during a news conference in Brussels after weeks of national rivalry over some of the most powerful jobs in the European Union.

EU appoints commissioner for neighborhood policy

BRUSSELS -- Johannes Hahn has been appointed as EU's commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations.

This new office was introduced instead of the commissioner for enlargement, that was until now occupied by Stefan Fule.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday stated that he will ask Parliament to hold a hearing for the new European Commissioner as soon as he/she is nominated by the President of the European Commission.

The row erupted as Romania, the last country to decide on its nomination for the next European Commission, sent Socialist MEP Corina Cretu on Thursday to be interviewed by the incoming commission chief, Jean-Claude Juncker.

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With just a few days to go before crucial talks in Paris with the troika, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis launched a series of meetings with key cabinet colleagues on Friday in a bid to hammer out the details of the Greek delegation's negotiating positions.

European Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker is expected in Athens on Monday, where he will be meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the Commission announced on Friday.

Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker was approved Tuesday as the next president of the European Commission, winning the backing of European lawmakers to head the EU’s powerful executive for the next five years.

By Luke Baker

After six decades of relentless if incremental integration, might the European Union be about to go into reverse?

The "ever closer union" enshrined in EU treaties since 1957 no longer looks so assured after a voter backlash in May's European Parliament elections and Britain's increasingly strident demands for a looser relationship with Brussels.

The new European Commission for the first time will include a separate position for a Commissioner on Immigration Matters.

This is due to the huge flow of immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East into the southern EU countries, said the new EC President Jean-Claude Juncker in an interview for Belgian media, quoted by the bTV national channel.