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The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union. Full Article
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) walks past European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (C) and Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China (L) as he proceeds to the podium for his speech at the University of International Business and Economics in...
View Photo »European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (C) answers a question from students as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) and Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China (L) listen to him at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing...
View Photo »European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso delivers his speech at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing on February 15, 2012. China's Premier Wen Jiabao said on February 14 his country was ready to increase its participation in efforts to resolve...
View Photo »European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, second left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, second right, and China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, center, attend a ribbon cutting ceremony for a euro currency exhibition at the University of International Business...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso gives a speech on the euro at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.
View Photo »China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan reacts after European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso gave a speech on the euro at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Zhou said Beijing has confidence in the euro and...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy listen to China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, unseen, at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Zhou said...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, speaks as China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, second right, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, listen during a speech on the euro at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing,...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso walks past China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, after a speech on the euro at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China, Wednesday,...
View Photo »CORRECTS VAN ROMPUY'S TITLE - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso looks up during a joint press conference with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, not in picture, after the China-EU meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing...
View Photo »BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 14: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend a press conference in the Great Hall of the People, during the European Union (EU)-China summit on February 14,...
View Photo »BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 14: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (front L), and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (front R) walk with their delegations to meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao , during the European Union (EU)-China summit on February 14, 2012 in...
View Photo »BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 14: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) speaks to reporters as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R), and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy look on at a press conference in the Great Hall of the People, during the European Union...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso gestures while speaking to reporters during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on February 14, 2012. Chinese and EU leaders met for a major summit set to be dominated by Europe's debt crisis, as an increasingly...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso looks up during a joint press conference with EU President Herman Van Rompuy and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, not in picture, after the China-EU meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, speaks as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao listen on during a joint press conference after the China-EU meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.
View Photo »BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 14: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R), European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (L) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pose for photos at the Great Hall of the People, during the European Union (EU)-China summit on February 14, 2012 in...
View Photo »European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (C) shake hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) while European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L) looks on during the European Union (EU)-China summit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on February 14, 2012. Chinese and...
View Photo »European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. The EU's top economic affairs official says the Greek parliament's approval of a new austerity package is a "crucial step...
View Photo »European Commission Vice President and Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas speaks during the Singapore Airshow Aviation Leadership Summit at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »A member of the European Commission takes a break in front of the Berlaymont building at the EU headquarters in Brussels on February 13, 2012.
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, center, poses with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Chairman S. Ramadorai next to the bronze statue of a bull outside BSE in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Barroso was in India after Friday's one-day India-EU summit.
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso poses with the bronze statue of a bull during his visit to Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Barroso was in India after Friday's one-day India-EU summit.
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso speaks during a seminar in New Delhi February 10, 2012. Barroso expressed confidence that a second bailout package for Greece would be finalised next week, but said Athens needed to implement structural reforms to restore confidence in...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) shakes hands with Rajendra Pachauri, Director-General of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), at a seminar in New Delhi February 10, 2012. India and the European Union (EU) could conclude a free trade deal by the autumn of...
View Photo »European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) walks past European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (C) and Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China (L) as he proceeds to the podium for his speech at the University of International Business and Economics in...
View Photo »We now need the European Commission to give marine energy its complete financial backing, under the strategic energy technology plan, to enable Scotland's vast ocean energy resources to connect to the mainland European market and help the commission achieve its energy infrastructure priority of a Northe...
Italy plans to cut public-sector jobs, overhaul the tax system and introduce incentives for venture-capital investments, the Finance Ministry said in a letter to the European Commission. Italy plans to raise its retirement age faster than other European Union countries and to cut 300,000 public-sector j...
In the afternoon, the President will host an EU summit lunch…Later in the afternoon, the President, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso will deliver statements in the Roosevelt Room.
We have established an initiative committee, launched a sign-up and will not hesitate to approach the European Commission . We won't let them poison our lives and our land
It is very disappointing that the U.K. government is supporting Canada’s efforts and we hope it has a rethink and puts tackling climate change ahead of Canada’s trade interests when it comes to vote on the European Commission’s commonsense proposal
Andreas Georgiou, who worked at the International Monetary Fund for 20 years, was appointed in 2010 by agreement with the fund and the European Commission to clean up Greek statistics after years of official fudging by the finance ministry.
Mr Di Rupo's announcement that the budget law should be worked out very soon is equally important, as it should provide for a swift and full assessment by the European Commission under the excessive deficit procedure
The European Commission could take on supra-national powers
The European Commission has done well to come forward with options for euro bonds as a measure for helping eurozone countries pool their debts in the future
If realised as intended in the European Commission proposal, local authorities would be required to meet very significant costs which could not be funded via local taxation
My offer is to come to a political dialogue with European Commission and the Indian government for the development of ICT
The European Commission is open to treaty revision if it is to reinforce and to give greater governance and more integration in the euro zone, and not to divide Europe
They have been trying several ways of tackling [the debt crisis] but … a euro bond or similar instrument [should be] developed and issued instead of the national individual ones. This could be done through the European Commission in Brussels or with other methods of financial management. A euro bond in ...
The European Commission considers that the UK authorities did not act with all due care when issuing the authorising documents and failed to collect the correct amount of duties. They are therefore held financially responsible for the loss of approximately £20 million to the EU budget.
It's doubtful whether the intrusive fiscal and economic regime proposed by Germany and the European Commission is a price which Italy, and many other euro zone countries for that matter, is willing to pay to rescue the bloc
The long term development of renewable energy from the deserts would be neither thinkable without tight co-operation with local authorities and industries in MENA, nor without close collaboration between Medgrid and Dii. I am happy that the European Commission and national governments are looking beyond...
The European Commission has no independent experts of its own, who would be capable of judging these stress tests; therefore the Commission depends on national experts. These national experts have always confirmed the security of their atomic plants up till now
Within this context the stability bonds, as the European Commission called them, may provide a relevant contribution. Everything is possible within a sound fiscal union.
At a time when the European Commission should be courting people for greater acceptance, it kicks off a completely unnecessary contract-violation procedure. The timing of this is grotesque.
It is true: The highly-indebted euro-zone countries -- including Germany -- must reduce their debts. Therefore, the proposed legislation to tighten economic and budgetary control that the European Commission presented yesterday is right.
It is the duty of the European Commission to spur on the European Union with ideas. It needs courage occasionally, but wisdom always. Commission President Jose Manuel Borroso, however, is lacking the latter with his push for euro bonds.
I consider it extremely worrying and inappropriate that the European Commission is directing the focus to eurobonds today. … [It is false to assume that the] collectivization of debt would allow us to overcome the currency union’s structural flaws.
The Bund auction got people wondering about how big German debt is and it coincided with (European Commission President Jose Manuel) Barroso talking about euro bonds
José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, told the Prime Minister to choose between protecting the City of London and retaining Britain’s clout before a key EU summit next month. Pushing for special opt-outs while also seeking to be a powerbroker has left Mr Cameron looking inconsis...
The length of the negotiations should not lead to conclusions that these are insurmountable difficulties ... One actor in these negotiations, the European Commission, has to check all this and that’s why it’s taking longer.
