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The EU is a democracy, in many ways more democratic and accountable than our system of democracy in the UK. The Commission President must be elected by an absolute majority of ALL MEPs – that's at least 51% of them. Every Commissioner and the entire Commission must be democratically approved or rejected by the European […]
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The European Commission has published a Handbook entitled "Buying Green" which explains in clear non-legal terms how to include environmental criteria in the different stages of a public procurement procedure.

After briefly summarizing the substance of a European Commission workshop on gender & security, data from sub-Saharan Africa are presented to examine the relationship between gender inequality & security issues. Ten threats to human security where women are at a greater disadvantage than men are outlined: economic, food, health, education, employment, environmental, personal, minority community, political & legal, & cultural insecurities. Disparities were found to be worse in war-torn countries, & it is argued that postwar planning must account for the systems of subordination underlying womens inequality, particularly as they can be disrupted by conflict leading to positive, if fragile, gender shifts for women. References. D. Edelman

AbstractIn the academic debate on the relative powers and influence of the EU institutions, it has become common to suggest – especially in the case of advocates of the 'new intergovernmentalism' – that the European Commission is in decline. In this article we show that while in some limited respects this is indeed the case, the Commission's overall position in the EU system is not one of having become a weaker institutional actor. The extent of the losses of its powers and influence tends to be exaggerated, while in some aspects its powers and influence have actually been strengthened. We show this by focusing on three of the Commission's core functions – agenda‐setter, legislative actor and executive – all of which are widely portrayed as being in decline. We incorporate into our analysis both the formal and informal resources available to the Commission in exercising the functions.