Vale de Almeida, who will replace former Irish PM John Bruton as the EU's face in Washington (EurActiv 20/01/09), is a long-time member of Commission President José Manuel Barroso's inner circle. Having previously headed Barroso's private office in Brussels (2004-2009), the Portuguese was made director-general of the Commission's external relations department (DG RELEX) in J...

Tony Blair: 58 votes (UK & Italy) Jan-Peter Balkenende: 40 votes (Netherlands & Poland) Herman Van Rompuy: 12 votes (Belgium) John Bruton: 7 votes (Ireland) Jean-Claude Juncker: 4 votes (Luxembourg) Toomas Hendrik Ilves: 4 votes (Estonia) Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga: 4 votes (Latvia) Remaining votes: 216 The EU's eastern member states are pushing for the nomination process involved in selecting both th...

Incoming US President Barack Obama and the EU can work together to help heal relations between the Judaeo-Christian world and Islam, John Bruton, a former Irish taoiseach and current EU ambassador to the USA, told EurActiv in an interview.

President Barack Obama together with the EU can help to heal relations between the Judaeo-Christian world and Islam, John Bruton, former Irish Taoiseach and current EU Ambassador to the USA, told EurActiv in an interview.

The Irish media reports that former Taoiseach John Bruton – now the EU’s Ambassador to the US – has called for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. In an appearance at the newly formed Oireachtas Lisbon sub-committee he said that a re-run referendum needed to be preceded by a better information campaign, adding "It is fair to say that the Lisbon Treaty was written in such a ...

A quote from John Bruton, the Irish Ambassador to Washington, in The Irish Times, 17 July 2008 Americans I have met on both sides of the political aisle and in business and academic life are all baffled by the decision that the Irish electorate took to reject the Lisbon Treaty, which was signed by the Irish Government on their behalf. [?] The entire mainstream of political, strategic and economic ...