Top EU jobs gone, but rush on to fill other posts

ALL the top jobs in the EU have been allocated following the announcement of the new commissioners on Friday in Brussels, but for many that is just the start of a job hunt.

There was not even standing room in the pressroom when Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso was revealing his new college last Friday.

While many of those present were journalists, many more were people who have been working in the Commission for the last five years and, with the change of commissioners, their temporary contracts end and they hope for a new one.