EMM News Explorer: European Commission

Kinga Gál [ added]: The Hungarian government has made it clear several times in the past weeks: if the European Commission's assessment finds it necessary, the Hungarian Government would come up with solutions and make the required legislative corrections. This is the European way to settle a dispute, not by shouting or condemning and labelling Governments

ppe 10-FEB-12

Rehn [ added]: At least the European Commission is satisfied with the outcome. It will help substantially to reduce the Greek debt burden towards 120 percent of GDP by 2020,

xinhuanet_en 10-FEB-12

Androulla Vassiliou [ said]: Young people have been hit disproportionally hard by the crisis. We have to invest efficiently in education and training to ensure that they have the skills and adaptability required to succeed in a competitive world. The Commission’s proposed new programme for education, training and youth, Erasmus for All, responds to this need by opening up more opportunities for young people and teachers to increase their personal development and skills,

MaltaBusinessWeekly 09-FEB-12

Necas [-said]: We are dealing with a political problem that we should solve without hysteria, real emotions and swollen waves. The document contains beyond any doubt entirely clear signs of transfer of powers to the European Commission and the European Court of Justice,

praguemonitor 09-FEB-12

Maroš Šefčovič [said:]: I am delighted we managed to identify and attract some of the brightest and best people from Bulgaria and Romania to come and work at the European Commission. Both countries have made a big contribution to European history and culture in the past, and they have much to offer today, as Europe continues to integrate.

focus 08-FEB-12

Kristalina Georgieva [ said]: >European Commission - Press release Race against time to avert hunger in the Sahel Brussels, 08 February 2012 - The European Commission is scaling up its humanitarian assistance to €123.5 million for the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa where 12 million people are at risk of hunger. The decision has been made amid increasing recognition by the international community of the urgent need to contain the looming food crisis. Leading donors, including EU Member States, the United States of America, Canada,

dg 08-FEB-12

Androulla Vassiliou [ said]: Young people have been hit disproportionally hard by the crisis. We have to invest efficiently in education and training to ensure that they have the skills and adaptability required to succeed in a competitive world. The Commission's proposed new programme for education, training and youth, Erasmus for All, responds to this need by opening up more opportunities for young people and teachers to increase their personal development and skills,

dg 08-FEB-12

Barroso [-told]: All of Europe has now its eyes on Athens. We are in a very decisive moment regarding the future of Greece and the future of the euro. We want Greece in the euro. The European Commission has made it clear from the very beginning that it is very important not only for Greece, but also for the euro, for the European project, to keep Greece in the euro,

euobserver 07-FEB-12

Bloom [responded:]: Finally reality is beginning to dawn in Brussels and across Europe...one of the most senior European Commissioners has announced that ’it is simply not true’ that if Greece were to leave the euro there would be disaster across the European financial system. This is what we in UKIP have been saying for months, years even.

eecho 07-FEB-12

Yanukovych [-said]: We would like to more actively pursue this dialogue and this cooperation [with the EU], but it depends on the European Commission,

nrcu 06-FEB-12

Brezina [-wrote]: The European Commission starts to consider the situation at the Education Ministry desperate and it sees no chance of a fundamental improvement with regard for the degree of disintegration of (the ministry's) system of drawing European subsidies,

praguemonitor 06-FEB-12

ceskenoviny 03-FEB-12

Carl Schlyter [said:]: The EP has today voted against misleading food claims and sent the Commission back to the drawing board. ... The Commission should now come forward with a new proposal excluding the rejected nutrition claim.

euractiv 02-FEB-12

Florian Mueller [notes that:]: The European Commission can't wait until Samsung finally wins a ruling based on such a patent and enforces it, potentially causing irreparable harm.

bbc 31-JAN-12

Davies [ said]: The Commission knows that the Emissions Trading System is failing to provide a sufficient price mechanism to guide investment decisions. It must stop delaying and bring forward proposals to address the problems

europarl 31-JAN-12

David O’Sullivan [ said]: The EEAS was set up a year ago in difficult circumstances. The new institutional context was a challenge, as it brought together officials from the European Commission, the Council and national diplomats people who weren’t necessarily going to get along,

epc 30-JAN-12

Nicholson [said:]: The Commission’s original proposals published last October are not what the industry needs for tackling the major global issue of food security or for bringing about the tangible simplification of the system which would help the farmers on the ground.

farminglife 30-JAN-12

Werner Faymann [ said]: Greece has to stick to its commitments but we do not think it's a good idea to send a special commissioner just for Greece. It would be better if the European Commission continued its monitoring it does for all [bail-out] programme countries,

euobserver 30-JAN-12

Barroso [ commented]: The Commission has always being clearly stating that it is viewing Schengen and the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism as two separate things that should not be influencing each other,

novinite 26-JAN-12

Merkel [-said]: We will have to get used to the fact that the European Commission, which already has lots of competences, will become more and more like a government,

abs 26-JAN-12

Füle [-said]: I think this is not really up to the European Commission to intervene in the issue which involves a member state and a candidate country, and specifically on such an issue. I believe that these kind of important and sensitive issues are best handled by historians, are best handled through dialogue, are best handled in a way putting the facts together, rather than through political declarations,

euronews 25-JAN-12

Orbán [-told]: We are open and ready to discuss all problems the EU Commission brings to us on the basis of serious arguments,

spiegel 18-JAN-12

Orban [-said]: We are willing to factor in the European Commission position,

AP 18-JAN-12

Georgieva [-warned]: Brussels, 18 January 2012 - The European Commission is doubling its humanitarian aid to the African Sahel region to 95 million EUR in response to the food crisis. The announcement was made by Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union's crisis response commissioner, during her ongoing visit to Niger and Chad. The funding surge comes on top of the 10 million EUR that the Commission allocated to the looming drought crisis in the region last November. The total 105 million EUR in humanitarian funding will lift

europa 18-JAN-12

Joaquín Almunia [said:]: The proposed acquisition could strongly reduce competition in the market to the detriment of millions of travellers and numerous freight transporters. The Commission needs to make sure that consumers and other customers continue to have a competitive choice of ferry services to and from Sardinia and Sicily.

europa 18-JAN-12

Andras Simor [-said]: There have been lively debates between the government and the European Commission. Several members of the government, including the prime minister, have declared that the government will respect the independence of the central bank. I cannot but believe the prime minister,

BBJ 18-JAN-12

Georgieva [added:]: The Commission has provided more than �225 million since 2005. But we want to go further and break the cycle of hunger. In the current crisis we've already allocated more than �100 million to fight hunger and we are working closely with other agencies to build a comprehensive aid strategy to cover both the short and long-term actions required to make malnutrition history.

focus 17-JAN-12

Barroso [also said that:]: The Commission is determined to take any legal steps necessary to ensure that the compatibility with European Union legislation is maintained.

BBJ 17-JAN-12

Barroso [-said]: The Commission is determined to take any legal steps necessary to ensure that the compatibility with European Union legislation is maintained,

news 17-JAN-12

Georgieva [added:]: The Commission has provided more than €225 million since 2005. But we want to go further and break the cycle of hunger. In the current crisis we've already allocated more than €100 million to fight hunger and we are working closely with other agencies to build a comprehensive aid strategy to cover both the short and long-term actions required to make malnutrition history.

reliefWeb 17-JAN-12

Altafaj [stated:]: The Commission will not be taking part, but there is both contact with the IFI and with the Greek authorities. We have to ensure that talks stay within the parameters decided on during the October summit

ansamed 13-JAN-12

Magnette [-said]: The European Commission is preparing 15 years of recession for Europe. All the great economists are saying it,

eubusiness 12-JAN-12

Maroš Šefčovič [said:]: The Commission regrets that it is again, after a similar situation in 2009, obliged to take the Council to court on this matter. The Council and the Commission both recognise the need for savings in administrative costs. However, such savings have to be made in compliance with the law and if necessary by changing the law, not by breaking it.

europa 11-JAN-12

Damanaki [-said]: The Commission has very specific demands, and they are reasonable in my view. We may not like them as Greeks, but they are reasonable,

kathimerini 10-JAN-12

Angela Merkel [ explained]: I personally will support it; if we don’t succeed in convincing the 27, which would be better anyway -the proposal of the EU Commission is already aiming at the 27 – then we have to think about what we can do. Germany and France both think that a financial transaction tax is the right answer,

euronews 09-JAN-12

Martelly [ said]: The Commission says the new Armed Forces will secure territorial integrity but it will also operate in case of natural disaster,

prensa 04-JAN-12

Breivik [-has admitted]: The Commission implies there are objections when it chooses to formulate itself in this way.

icenews 03-JAN-12

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