There was a time when Frans Timmermans was supposed to be the EU’s Next Big Thing. As Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s declared “right-hand man,” he was going to be the most influential ...

LISBON — European Socialists will need to adapt if they don’t want to “become obsolete,” European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans told a party congress in Lisbon on Saturday after ...

EU Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans wants Greta Thunberg and other activists to fight for a climate-friendly farming policy, despite refusing to scrap the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform they ...

Frans Timmermans, the first vice president of the European Commission, is poised to put his name forward as a lead candidate for the Commission’s top job after winning the backing of the German ...

Maroš Šefčovič — the European Commission’s Mr Fix It — on Tuesday took control of the EU’s climate policy after Frans Timmermans quit to make a run for Dutch prime minister. Šefčovič was handed the ...

Frans Timmermans holds the future of the next European Commission in his hands. The Dutch Socialist — appointed Tuesday as the Commission's executive vice president in charge of the European Green ...

AMSTERDAM — Frans Timmermans wants a top job in Brussels. But he’s got a problem: Brussels. In an election in which his center-left Labor Party is on track to take yet another historic drubbing, the ...

EU Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said Thursday he will run for the leadership of a joint Socialist-Green ticket in November’s Dutch election — which could mean his departure from the European ...

Dutch politician and former EU deputy criticises ‘astonishing’ policy U-turns by countries including UK Frans Timmermans, the former EU heavyweight who has returned to Dutch politics to fight the ...

Fear of rapid change could lead the West "to the dark side," EU Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans warned Wednesday, saying the challenges facing Europe have "everything to do with a world that is ...