Jean-Claude Juncker

A particularly warm meeting between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and European Commission President in-waiting Jean-Claude Juncker in Athens on Monday appeared to result in the two men coming to an understanding about what position Greece’s representative at the European Union executive will hold when the commissioners’ portfolios are handed out next month.

Incoming European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, on a visit to Athens on Monday, played down the prospect of eurozone countries writing off part of Greek debt to make the country's debt sustainable.

The portfolio that Greece’s Commissioner might get next month is one of the key subjects on the agenda for European Commission president-elect Jean-Claude Juncker’s visit to Athens on Monday.

Juncker is due to meet Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at noon on Monday. The two men, who maintain a close relationship, are expected to hold a joint news conference after their talks.

European Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker is due in Athens on Monday for talks with government officials and to deliver a message of “hope” two months before he takes up his new position in Brussels.

European Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker is expected in Athens on Monday, where he will be meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the Commission announced on Friday.

Greece may cut energy costs for business even without European Union approval, Development Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday.

Romania's President and Prime Minister are battling over the right to nominate a European Commissioner. And their dispute is putting an important position for Romania at risk.

Ironically, both leaders want the same man, the current EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos, to retain his post. Ciolos, 44, has reportedly done a good job during his two years as EU Commissioner.

Outgoing Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin will be the government's nomination to become the next EU Commissioner from the country, ruling party sources say.

Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker was approved Tuesday as the next president of the European Commission, winning the backing of European lawmakers to head the EU’s powerful executive for the next five years.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras spoke by telephone on Tuesday with new European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to congratulate him on his new post.

Samaras is to meet with Juncker, a former prime minister of Luxembourg who belongs to the European People’s Party with which Samaras is affiliated, on the sidelines of a European Council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.