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COM/AST/112/2026: The AST2 Internal Competition, Stage by Stage
COM/AST/112/2026 seeks 50 AST2 assistants; applications closed on 30 October 2026. Every test, pass mark and cut-off, who goes through at each stage, and the rules to know.
EPSO AST/158/26 Data & Statistics: 423 Places Explained
EPSO/AST/158/26 field 1 recruits 423 data, analytics and statistics assistants at AST 3. Who can apply, the five tests, why the field MCQ decides the ranking, and the EU statistics rules behind Annex II's 17 duties.
EPSO Librarian Competition AST/158/26: 243 Places Explained
EPSO/AST/158/26 field 2 recruits 243 library and information assistants at AST 3. Eligibility, the five tests, why the field MCQ decides the ranking, and the cataloguing, copyright and e-resource standards behind Annex II.
EPSO Archivist Competition AST/158/26: 298 Places Explained
EPSO/AST/158/26 field 3 recruits 298 records and archives assistants at AST 3. Eligibility, the five tests, why the field MCQ decides everything, and the EU rules and ICA standards Annex II points to.
Article 107 TFEU Explained: State Aid and the Internal Market
The four cumulative conditions that make aid State aid, the difference between aid that shall be compatible and aid that may be, and why Article 108 is half the answer.
Article 191 TFEU Explained: EU Environment Policy and Its Principles
The four objectives, the four principles — precaution, prevention, rectification at source, polluter pays — and the level-of-protection wording EPSO builds EU Knowledge questions from.
Article 207 TFEU Explained: The Common Commercial Policy
Why trade is an exclusive EU competence, what Article 207 actually covers, how trade agreements are negotiated under Article 218, and the unanimity exceptions that decide real cases.
Article 47 of the Charter Explained: Effective Remedy and Fair Trial
What Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights guarantees, why Article 51 decides when it applies at all, and the scope trap EPSO builds EU Knowledge questions from.
Articles 15 and 16 TEU Explained: The European Council and Qualified Majority
What the European Council does and why it does not legislate, plus the exact qualified majority arithmetic — 55% of members, at least 15 States, 65% of the population, and the four-member blocking minority.
EPSO Preparation Platforms Compared (2026): What Each One Publishes, and What It Actually Costs
A dated, source-linked comparison of 12 EPSO preparation platforms — EU Training, Pass EPSO, ORSEU, Prepari, Yepso, JobTestPrep, EPSOready, EPSO Genius, EPSOHQ, EU Campus, Open Exam Prep and EU-now. Every figure is what the platform itself publishes, checked on 27 August and 6 September 2026.
Free SHL Practice for the Commission's Internal Competitions: What Actually Exists
Most free SHL practice online is for the wrong test. Here is what is genuinely free for the adaptive Verify Interactive G+ that opens the 2026 Commission internal competitions — starting with the one SHL publishes itself.
EPSO Budget & Financial Management: What the FRMCQ Tests
No open Budget Notice today — which makes it the right moment to build. The MFF, own resources, NextGenerationEU and the Article 314 procedure, with the numbers that actually appear in questions.
EPSO Competition Policy: Articles 101-109 TFEU for the FRMCQ
Antitrust, mergers and State aid as EPSO tests them. Article 101 and its four exemption conditions, the EUR 5 000 million threshold, the standstill clause — with the Treaty text the questions are written from.
EPSO Finance: Prudential Rules, Markets and the Single Rulebook
The finance syllabus has two layers — the EU's own money, and the EU's rules for everyone else's. CRR, CRD IV, MiFID II and the supervisory architecture, quoted from the instruments.
EPSO Public Procurement: The Two Rulebooks You Must Not Mix
EU institutions do not procure under Directive 2014/24/EU — they procure under the Financial Regulation. Procedures, exclusion, EDES, framework contracts and abnormally low tenders, quoted from both rulebooks.
EPSO Security: The Cyber Rulebook Behind the Questions
NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, the Cybersecurity Act, CER and DORA — the deadlines, the definitions and the overlaps that EU security questions are built from.
EPSO Statistics: What Regulation 223/2009 Actually Asks You
The EU statistics syllabus is governance before methodology. The ESS, professional independence, the five quality criteria and statistical confidentiality — quoted from the framework regulation questions are built from.
Internal vs External EPSO Competitions 2026: Don't Prepare the Wrong Test
Internal vs external EPSO competitions in 2026 use different tests and platforms. What changes in format, eligibility and calendar — so you prep the right one.
What Is SHL Verify Interactive G+? The Cognitive Test in the 2026 EU Commission Internal Competitions
SHL Verify Interactive G+ is the adaptive cognitive test in the 2026 EU Commission internal competitions: 24 questions, 36 minutes, 60th-percentile cut-off.
The Commission Quietly Changed Its Internal Competition Test — Here's the Full Breakdown
The 2026 COM internal competitions (AD7, AD5, AST3 and now AST2) open with an adaptive SHL cognitive assessment: 24 interactive questions in 36 minutes, cut-off at the 60th percentile — the 40th for AST2. Everything we verified about the new format — and how to get ready.
The SHL Cognitive Test in the Commission's Internal Competitions: A Complete Guide
A detailed, verified guide to the adaptive SHL cognitive assessment that now opens the European Commission's internal competitions (AD7, AD5, AST3): the format, the interactive item types, how it is scored, and how to prepare — with a training platform that simulates it, live now on EU·Now.
Article 17 TEU Explained: The European Commission
What the Commission actually does under Article 17 TEU — guardian of the Treaties, right of initiative, budget execution — and the exam traps around it.
Article 263 TFEU Explained: The Action for Annulment
How EU acts get struck down: reviewable acts, the four grounds, privileged vs individual applicants and the two-month limit — Article 263 for EPSO candidates.
Article 314 TFEU Explained: The EU Budget Procedure
How the EU's annual budget is adopted — the special legislative procedure of Article 314, its calendar, and the budget-vs-MFF distinction EPSO loves.
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Interactive tools, data calculators, and self-assessment exercises to help you prepare.
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