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Institutional misunderstanding over appointment of European fundamental rights agency director

Brussels, 17/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament president, Hans-Gert Pöttering wrote a letter to the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso on 11 December in which he expressed concerns about the procedures for appointing the director of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights. The latter considers that the director should be appointed by the agency's management committee, which takes the opinions submitted by the Parliament and Council of the EU in a...