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| | Jacques Santer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jacques Santer (born May 18, 1937) is a politician from Luxembourg. | | | Santer became head of the European Commission in 1995 as a compromise choice forced by the United Kingdom. | | | An investigation into allegations of corruption concerning single EU-commissioners led to the resignation of the entire commission March 15, 1999 (see Santer Commission Resignation). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Santer
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| | EIoP: Text 2002-014: Full Text |
| | According to this principle, the Commission's decisions are supposed to be reached jointly and to be externally represented and justified in unison. | | | The President of the Commission is appointed by the heads of government to which the European Parliament has had to give its approval since 2000 – as mentioned above in part 1. | | | It had rather been influenced by political decisions within the member states, as the member states themselves are responsible for the appointment of the Commissioners together with the President of the Commission. |
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http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/eiop/texte/2002-014.htm
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| | Dáil Debates Official Report - 24-03-99 |
| | A strong Commission acting in the interest of the Union and all its members states can act as a counterpoint to the power of the larger members states. | | | The Commission has until now been appointed by the Council, which is made up of elected representatives who are directly connected to their electorates by virtue of mandates received in national elections. | | | Since the nomination of the President of the Commission will have been specifically approved, not only by the member Governments but by a vote in the Parliament before the other members of the Commission are appointed, the effect of this provision should be to strengthen the political authority of the President vis-à-vis the other members. |
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http://www.irlgov.ie/debates-99/24mar99/sect11.htm
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| | Phillip Whitehead article on BSE |
| | Santer and his colleagues were able to see off one vote of no confidence, but resigned ahead of a second one after further and more embarrassing revelations. | | | The President of the new Commission, Romano Prodi was compelled to make Food Safety a priority for his term, an issue by which it would be judged. | | | Such exchanges would probably have put paid to the essentially political decision of the Jospin cabinet on beef exports before it was taken. |
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http://www.labmeps-emids.fsnet.co.uk/nobse.htm
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| | The European Union in 1999: Finances, Institutions, and War |
| | Santer reportedly pleaded with Cresson to resign, and tried to convince both the French President and Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, to urge to her to do the same, but was rebuffed by all three. | | | The major surprises were the resignation of the Commission on March 16, necessitating the nomination of a new Commission president, and the war in Kosovo (NATO's air campaign was launched on March 24). | | | It has been suggested that the lack of an apparent ideological divide is in part to blame for voter disinterest, although the more frequently blamed culprit is the recent Commission scandal that forced the resignation of the Santer Commission in March and reinforced perceptions of EU corruption. |
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http://www.eustudies.org/eu1999forum.htm
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| | Yet, on March 15, 1999, he resigned with the entire Santer Commission after the publication of an independent expert report exposing six cases of fraud or mismanagement, and several instances of nepotism in the Commission. | | | The second administrative-managerial role type is political adjudication, where the Commission engages in political negotiation to ensure the implementation of policy, such as in competition policy or in trade disputes. | | | For democrats, the European Parliament’s decisive role in prompting the resignation of the Commission vindicated that political supervision can and should work in the European Union. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~hooghe/downloads/chapter6.doc
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| | Verba Volante, Scripta Manent |
| | Santer himself may return to Brussels, ironically as a member of the European Parliament (elections to which will be held in June), whose growing outrage in the face of Commission stonewalling sealed his fate. | | | Says a senior Commission official: "The terrible thing is that Santer doesn't deserve all this. | | | "It's a diplomatic culture," says Jens-Peter Bonde, a Danish M.E.P. "Secrecy is very useful in diplomacy—but not in lawmaking." And the Commission has long been dogged by the practice of making appointments to senior jobs on the basis of informal national quotas rather than merit. |
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http://www.rod.dircon.co.uk/415/plank.html
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| | European Union: Europe´s First Government Crisis |
| | To resolve the crisis of the European executive, a decision of the European Council, the assembly of the prime ministers of the partner states, was necessary. | | | Santer's 20-member cabinet had been on the table for some time. | | | Under the chairmanship of German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Europe's prime ministers met in Berlin and nominated their former Italian colleague Romano Prodi as the next President of the Commission. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/european_politics/18683
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| | BBC News Europe Santer calls for EU reform |
| | Mr Santer hopes to become a member of the European Parliament after elections in June but in the meantime, he still has to account to it for his actions as president of the European Commission. | | | Jacques Santer, the outgoing president of the European Commission which resigned last week, has called on Europe's institutions to learn from past mistakes and push through speedy reforms. | | | A spokesman for the UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said Mr Prodi was a man of considerable capability whose reform credentials were well established. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/europe/301319.stm
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| | CNN - EU in turmoil after executive commission resigns - March 16, 1999 |
| | Santer announces the resignation of the entire 20-member EU executive commission | | | said London would call for "a real political heavyweight" to be appointed as the new commission president and would suggest a new contract between the president and the European Council of Ministers enshrining reform targets. | | | CNN - EU in turmoil after executive commission resigns - March 16, 1999 |
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http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9903/16/eu.commission.01
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| | BBC News Europe Jacques Santer: A message of defiance |
| | The commission's decision yesterday was a political act. | | | Statement by European Commission President Jacques Santer at a morning news conference after the resignation of the entire commission. | | | We have taken our responsibilities, even if we judge the report to be unbalanced. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_297000/297675.stm
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- A Euromassacre -- Mar. 29, 1999 |
| | In a bizarre twist the day after the mass resignation, Santer rejected the report's conclusions as "unbalanced," suggesting that he still had the "credibility and dignity to continue" to lead a caretaker Commission. | | | The experts also questioned the propriety of Portuguese Commissioner Joao de Deus Pinheiro hiring his brother-in-law to a post in his private office, and of German Commissioner Monika Wulf-Mathies securing a contract for a lawyer who was married to a good friend. | | | But in E.U. capitals the Commission's resignation provoked as much apprehension as applause. |
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http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1107990329-22845,00.html
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| | News Article |
| | Mr van Buitenen, who was elected in last June's European Parliament elections, has criticised the European Commission for its lack of reform after the fall of the previous Santer Commission in 1999. | | | The woman behind the alleged fraud - former commissioner Edith Cresson - was last week cleared from criminal proceedings, and has denounced accusations made against her, notably by Mr van Buitenen, as "gossip" that had been whipped up into "a climate of hysteria". | | | Mr van Buitenen also raised doubts about the Commission's pledge for "zero tolerance to fraud" and questioned Commission Vice-president Neil Kinnock's administrative reforms. |
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http://nff.moodia.com/newsarchives/display.aspx?n=90
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| | Santer Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Santer Commission was the European Commission that held office from 1995 until 15 March 1999. | | | The Santer Commission did not serve its full five year term, but was forced to resign early over allegations of corruption. | | | It consisted of its president, Jacques Santer, and nineteen other commissioners. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer_Commission
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| | Santer, Jacques -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | French statesman Jacques-Lucien-Jean Delors was president of the European Communities (EC) Commission from 1985 to 1994. | | | "The right man in the right place at the right time," as he was called by British Prime Minister John Major, or the lowest common denominator, as others said of him, Jacques Santer came to the presidency of the European Commission as a compromise choice. | | | "The right man in the right place at the right time," as he was called by British Prime Minister John Major, or the lowest common denominator, as others said of him, Jacques Santer came to the... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9115408
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| | Commissioning reform by Ben Hall |
| | Commission President Romano Prodi's single most important priority is to re-establish public confidence in his institution. | | | The European Commission has new responsibilities, most notably in justice and home affairs. | | | The Commission's role in economic policy co-ordination could be enhanced by the appointment of a chief economist to stimulate a more open debate on the various national policies. |
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http://www.cer.org.uk/articles/n_8_1.html
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| | Seanad Debates - Official Report 26-11-97 |
| | Reliance on aids to private storage, as the Commission envisages, would not be adequate in difficult market circumstances and where major market imbalance remains a threat. | | | There has been a great deal of wandering. | | | A decision can be made at the Council of Ministers to cut it in 12 months time, which is worrying for farmers. |
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http://www.irlgov.ie/debates-97/s26nov97/sect3.htm
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| | Mass resignation by European Commission - Path cleared for reform of European Union |
| | The appointment of a new Commission should be used "to push through root and branch reform". | | | In the British Parliament, Blair said the investigation had revealed "systematic failings in the Commission which have been tolerated for far too long". | | | The investigation was ordered after the Commission narrowly avoided a no-confidence motion in the European Parliament in January. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/mar1999/ec-m17.shtml
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| | Letters - Europe |
| | TO: European Commission President, Jacques Santer - 23 September 1996 | | | Hans Van den Broek - 30 July 1996 | | | As an exponent of the EU's concern in the Cypriot question the Italian Presidency appointed Ambassador Di Roberto as its representative in Cyprus, being succeeded by Ambassador Heaslip in July 1996 as the representative of the new Irish Presidency for Cyprus. |
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http://members.aol.com/ccceditor/CCC01213.HTM
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| | ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - "The Santer Commission resignation crisis: Government-opposition dynamics in ... |
| | The paper argues that the crisis leading to the resignation of the Santer Commission in March 1999 was the result of an unprecedented intensification of party competition in the EP, based on a government-opposition dynamic that was also observable at an inter-institutional level. | | | It also maintains that government and opposition modes may converge and co-vary at national and EU levels; "opposition" in the context of the EU can have several simultaneous targets: Commission, Council, and national governments. | | | "The Santer Commission resignation crisis: Government-opposition dynamics in executive-legislative relations of the EU" |
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http://aei.pitt.edu/archive/00002919
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| | Statewatch News online: Article by European Ombudsman in Wall Street Journal |
| | In 1993, the Maastricht Treaty established an Ombudsman's office to investigate citizens' complaints about EU maladministration and instructed the Commission and the Council of Ministers to adopt rules on public access to documents. | | | Should the Parliament and Council adopt the Commission's proposal, there probably won't be a document in the EU's possession that couldn't legally be withheld from public scrutiny. | | | Although the treaty gives EU citizens a right of access to documents, that right was made subject to "general principles and limits on grounds of public or private interest," to be laid down in a regulation drafted by the Commission. |
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http://www.statewatch.org/SodermanWSJ.htm
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | All member governments have always said that the commission and the college is not the 'government for Europe,' and the member states have been really keen to downplay the authority the commission has because they don't want it to infringe too much on their own powers," Crum said. | | | Prodi is expected to resist demands for resignations among his commission team, particularly that of Economic Affairs Commissioner Pedro Solbes of Spain, who has responsibility for Eurostat. | | | This would tie them to the discredited Santer commission, before the Prodi era. |
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http://www.rferl.org/features/2003/09/25092003153346.asp
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| | Benjamin D. Santer - encyclopedia article about Benjamin D. Santer. |
| | Benjamin D. Santer Climate researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed by the University of California, in Livermore, California. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | It is most widely known for its significant support of the Public Broadcasting System and for the MacArthur Fellowship Program, also known as the "genius awards". |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Benjamin%20D.%20Santer
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| | Santer criticizes practices against the Palestinians |
| | Santer calls for diplomatic solution to Iraqi crisis | | | EC President Jacques Santer held Israel responsible for the collapse of the Palestinian economy as a result of Israeli sanctions and continued military cordoning of the Palestinians. | | | The European Commission on Tuesday criticized Israeli measures and practices against the Palestinians in the occupied Arab territories. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980225/1998022523.html
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| | Santer-commission-resignation software downloads |
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| | EconPapers: The resignation of the Santer-Commission: the impact of 'trust' and 'reputation' |
| | This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title. | | | After the threshold had been crossed in connection with the BSE-scandal further violations finally led to the destruction of reputation of the Santer-Commission. | | | Abstract: This contribution begins with reciting the facts behind the resignation of the European Commission under Jacques Santer, followed by theoretical considerations on the significance of trust and reputation from the principal-agent-theory perspective. |
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http://econpapers.repec.org/article/erpeiopxx/p0087.htm
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