‘Perhaps I am being a bit harsh, but it’s about time we became a bit harsh,’ says Frans Timmermans.

Second referendum supporter and Boris Johnson critic is frontrunner to succeed Juncker.

Frans Timmermans said it was ‘extremely well-known in London’ that UK demand could not be met.

EU Commissioner slams ‘cheap promises, simplified visions, blatantly incorrect statements’.

European Union judges must have a role overseeing Northern Ireland’s Brexit arrangements, a senior EU official has said in rejection to British demands.

Policy comes as incoming president seeks to tackle claims she would be beholden to Poland and Hungary

Brussels rallies amid elevation of Brexiteer Boris Johnson to UK's highest office, says it will stick to Brexit deal.

The European Union will need to “re-orient most, if not all” of its policies in order to protect vulnerable regions and workers in industries affected by the transition to a green economy, the EU Commission’s vice-president Frans Timmermans has said.

Deputy Frans Timmermans accuses Tory Brexiters of a ‘cavalier’ approach to peace. / Jean-Claude Juncker has told Theresa May in a private phone call that shifting her red lines in favour of a permanent customs union is the price she will need to pay for the EU revising the Irish backstop.

Control of the European Commission is in the grasp of the continent’s centre-left for the first time in decades. / The EU’s centre-left is planning to introduce a continent-wide minimum wage to correct the bloc’s “neoliberal failures” if it wins control of the European Commission after this month’s elections.

Business group warns that companies are getting ready to shift operations abroad.

Frans Timmermans claims that ‘so much unnecessary damage’ has been inflicted on both Britain and EU.

As the race to be the next European Commission president heats up, the two main candidates, Manfred Weber from the European People's Party (EPP) and Frans Timmermans from the Party of European Socialists (PES), faced off in a TV debate hosted by France 24 on Wednesday night.