The European Commission (EC) is part of the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government,with 27 members of the Commission headed by a President. It includes an administrative body of about 32,000 European civil servants. The commission is divided into departments known as Directorates-General (DGs) that can be likened to departments or ministries each headed by a Director-General who is responsible to a Commissioner.
The president of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission,the executive branch of the European Union (EU). The president of the Commission leads a cabinet of Commissioners,referred to as the College. The president is empowered to allocate portfolios among,reshuffle,or dismiss Commissioners as necessary. The College directs the commission's civil service,sets the policy agenda and determines the legislative proposals it produces. The commission is the only body that can propose or draft bills to become EU laws.
A European commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each member within the Commission holds a specific portfolio. The commission is led by the president of the European Commission. In simple terms they are the equivalent of government ministers.
The College of Europe is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its first campus opened in Bruges,Belgium,a second campus located in Warsaw,Poland,and a third one established in Tirana,Albania.
Janez Potočnik is a Slovenian politician who served as European Commissioner for Environment from 2009 until 2014. He was formerly Slovenia's Minister for European Affairs. In November 2014,he became co-chair of the International Resource Panel (IRP),a forum of scientists and experts working on natural resources management.
Sir Sumantra "Suma" Chakrabarti is a former British civil servant who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from July 2012 to July 2020. He was previously the highest ranking Indian in Britain's civil service,serving as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from late 2007 until 2012.
The Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement is the member of the European Commission in charge of overseeing the accession process of prospective new member states and relations with those bordering the European Union (EU). The present Commissioner,as of December 2019,is Olivér Várhelyi.
The Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People is the member of the European Commission responsible for economic and financial affairs. The position was previously titled Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro and European Vice President for the Euro and Social Dialogue from 2014 to 2019. The current executive vice president is Valdis Dombrovskis (EPP).
The European Civil Service is a generic term applied to all staff serving the institutions and agencies of the European Union (EU). Although recruitment is sometimes done jointly,each institution is responsible for its own internal structures and hierarchies.
Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova is a Bulgarian economist serving as the 12th managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. She was the Chief Executive of the World Bank Group from 2017 to 2019 and served as Acting President of the World Bank Group from 1 February to 8 April 2019 following the resignation of Jim Yong Kim. She previously served as Vice-President of the European Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2016.
Antonio Preto was an Italian lawyer who was a civil servant of the European Parliament and from 2012 a member of the Italian regulator for Communications and the Audiovisual sector,Commissioner for Infrastructure and Networks. During his career in Brussels he dealt in particular with regulation issues and European policies concerning the right of establishment and the freedom to provide services,competition,e-commerce,copyright in the information society,consumer protection,industry and technological innovation. He also followed privatization and takeover beats of European important firms and EU controversy. Europe has been the common thread of his career. He participated in all the major debates on European integration and the future of the European Union. He closely followed the developments of the European Convention for a Constitutional Treaty,the enlargement process,the single market,the liberalization of the professions in Italy and Europe,the debate on the economical governance and the evolution of the professions' liberalization in Italy and Europe. Moreover,he also followed the interaction between the free market and the European construction.
Margaritis Schinas is a Greek politician and former civil servant. He took office in December 2019 as a vice-president in the Von der Leyen Commission with the portfolio of European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life. A member of the New Democracy party,he previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2007 to 2009 and served as chief spokesperson of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019,and as a deputy director-general of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication between 2015 and 2019.
Martin Selmayr is a European civil servant from Germany who was Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2018 to 2019 and chief of staff to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2018. During his time in the Juncker Commission,Selmayr was widely described as one of the most influential figures within the European Union. After taking office as secretary-general,he was described in a debate in the European Parliament as "the most powerful bureaucrat in the world." A resident of Brussels since 2000,he is a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) party of Belgium. He is considered by many to be close to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and its leadership,but the European Commission said he has never been a member of that party.
Peter Michael Alexander Wilson is a civil servant whose most recent post was to serve as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He has also served as British Ambassador to Brazil,British Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Clara Martínez Alberola is a Spanish lawyer and a European civil servant. From March 2018 to November 2019,she served as the Head of Cabinet to the President of the European Commission,Jean-Claude Juncker.
Irène Souka is a former European civil servant from Greece who served in the European Commission for 40 years starting in 1980. From May 2009 to January 2020,she was director general of the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security. As of 2015,Souka was one of only six female directors-general among the 35 directors within the European Commission.
Laurence de Richemont is a Head of unit Single Market Service Centre,part of Directorate-General for Internal Market,Industry,Entrepreneurship and SMEs at the European Commission since 2015. During 2010-2014 she was adviser to the cabinet of president of the European Commission,JoséManuel Barroso.
Stefano Sannino is an Italian diplomat and European civil servant.
Daniele Franco is an Italian economist,central banker and civil servant who served as Minister of Economy and Finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi from 2021 to 2022. From 2020 until 2021,he served as director-general of the Bank of Italy.
