Brussels, 05/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - European Commission vice president, Günter Verheugen, considers that the power of senior Commission officials has increased so much over recent years that Commissioners sometime “lose control of the apparatus”. In an interview to Süddeutsche Zeitung on 5 October, Verheugen evoked a “constant fight for power” between Commissioners and senior officials who, despite their lack of democratic legitimacy, display an increasing tendency to settle...