The BBC reports that a European Commission report written by former Bank of France Governor Jacques de Larosiere, to be released today, will include proposals for an EU-wide supervisory scheme for banks and other financial bodies, including a new pan-European watchdog.

The Commission as recently made public its report on transparency in 2007. You can download the document - COM (2008) 630 final - here. The report is a valuable overview of all the activities of the Commission in the field...

As the European Commission prepares to publish its ideas for the future of EU regional policy after 2013, the political debate on how much money will be available for the bloc's regional funds is already underway. EurActiv France reports.

Tom Griffin (London, OK): The Calman Commission on the future of  Scottish devolution has today published its first report. It's very much a provisional exercise, but it provides some important indications of the Commission's thinking. The maintenance of the union was always going to be a key principle for the Commission, which is backed by the three main unionist parties in Scot...

Panorama really hits the nail on the head: The much bigger question raised by the Commission’s report, however, is whether it is, in fact, capable of properly regulating a charity operating somewhere like Gaza and the West Bank. … In paragraph 60 of its report, the Commission acknowledged that the material presented to it “seemed to indicate that

The Commission’s Annual General Report is clearly set out at treaty level: both the obligation to publish for the Commission and the task to discuss for the European Parliament. But looking for the European Parliament’s follow-up makes me wonder if my search techniques are sub-standard or if the EP does not care about its obligation. Regardless, for others the Annual General Report is ...

An European Policy Institutes Network report compiled by national experts from 25 EU member states has concluded that the European Commission has been "politically weakened" under President José Manuel Barroso's stewardship. "A picture emerges of a European Commission that has become politically weakened vis-à-vis the other institutions and in the Union as a whole." The report states that the "d...

European Union countries should hand the European Commission powers to coordinate gas flows in the 27-member bloc in the event of a gas crisis, according to a draft Commission report.

The preambles of existing and future treaties mention economic and social progress among the main reasons for European integration. The Commission has a treaty obligation to report annually on the achievement of the social policy objectives and on the demographic situation in the European Community (European Union). We look at the relevant provisions of the current Treaty establishing the European...

Extremely harsh financial sanctions touted in a European Commission monitoring report on Bulgaria revealed by the press have triggered a political storm in the new EU member, with the opposition initiating a no-confidence motion against the governing coalition and demanding the president's resignation.