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The appointment of the new Secretary-General of the Commission in 2018 has been taken up by the European Parliament and has been put on its agenda on several occasions. In order to give interested readers an overview on the controversial decision, its circumstances and its assessment by different actors, this documentation contains a chronology of the related activities of the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman. It collects the most relevant texts from these institutions and also the ...

This analytical study focuses on the legal and practical / ethical dimensions of the appointment of senior-level officials in the European Union (EU) institutions, and a selection of Member States and different European / international organisations. Focusing on the four instances of maladministration identified by the European Ombudsman with regard to the appointment of the new Secretary-General (SG) of the European Commission (EC), this study recommends inter alia that a special appointment procedure ...

As the EPRS Outlook for the Spring European Council foresaw, European Union leaders approved the building blocks for a European Energy Union, endorsed the Commission's Annual Growth Survey (AGS), linked sanctions against Russia to the complete implementation of the Minsk agreements, and called for a government of National Unity in Libya. The Heads of State or Government also appointed Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen as new Secretary General of the Secretariat-General of the Council.