Ann Mettler to head new European Political Strategy Centre

On 1 December, Jean-Claude Juncker appointed Ann Mettler, the executive director and co-founder of The Lisbon Council , a Brussels-based think tank, as head of the new European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC). This in-house body will provide the Commission president and his college with “specialised policy advice and forward-looking studies” on their political priorities. On 5 November, Juncker had announced that the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), a body set up by Jacques Delors in 1989 and reorganised by…