Last week, we saw the nomination of the men and women who will head the European Union’s Executive arm – the European Commission – for the next five years under European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. This team will now face relevant committees in the European Parliament early in the New Year for questions before [...]
Meet the European Commission’s New Leadership
European Parliament Election Results
Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office has issued its own scorecard of the just-held European Parliament elections and their implications for business. The big take away:
Turnout (43%) was lower than 2004 (45%)
The European People’s Party (EPP), Centre-right Christian democrats, were the clear winners of the elections
The Centre-left Party of European Socialists (PES) suffered devastating losses for (especially in [...]
Gordon Brown’s Challenges in Wake of Local and European Parliament Elections
Our Fleishman-Hillard colleagues in London have graciously shared with us a report they issued yesterday analyzing Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s challenges — in light of a whole host of resignations among his Cabinet and party in Parliament. Correspondingly, the Prime Minister’s Labour Party suffered some setbacks in European Parliament elections over the weekend as well, [...]
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