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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9980

19 September 2009
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Questions to be resolved and queries about how new European Commission will operate

The European Parliament has expressed its views so the new president of the European Commission can start preparing for the new College of Commissioners getting down to work, assuming of course that the Lisbon Treaty does actually come into force. I am not referring to the Commission's work programme. In addition to the guidelines already laid out by Barroso, the full programme will be decided by the commissioners en masse. Instead, I am referring to how the Commission will actually function...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
SNIPPETS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
TIMETABLE