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EU commission sees civil servants' power grow

The European Commission has after EU enlargement become a more "presidential" organisation, but it is the commission's civil servants who have really won out in terms of influence, Polish commissioner Danuta Hübner has said.

Mrs Hübner, in charge of regional policy, told Brussels journalists on Thursday (22 February) that "the bigger the commission, the more presidential the system must be. This is not a negative assessment, it's just a reality."

The number of commissioners has s...

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