The first minister said the Civil Service Commission confirmed his actions were within the rules of the commission's recruitment policy.

BBC: No war on England, the First Minister declared this week.

She tried to transfer seven of them, only to be ordered to reinstate them by the local civil-service commission.

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Le Monde found that the British held, in fact, no more of the top civil-service posts in the commission than did the French or the Germans.

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Speculation on his replacement centers on four men: civil service chief Lee Ek Tieng, Public Service Commission head Andrew Chew, chairman of Singapore Press Holdings Lim Kim San and S. R.

CNN: Intelligence

The European Commission (the EU's civil service), disliked by both France and Germany, will keep a central role at the demand of smaller countries.

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This may well shift power from the European Commission (the EU's civil service) and finance ministers (the regents of the euro zone) to heads of government.

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But a report by the Public Service Commission of Canada, which oversees the hiring and welfare of 210, 000 federal civil servants, has noted some drawbacks.

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