Euphoric MEPs seek to extend their power
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Many predicted the parliament would back down at the last minute, swallowing its reservations and endorsing Jos Manuel Barroso's new European Commission.
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The EU executive sets tough terms for Eastern European countries hoping to join in the coming years.
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European Parliament politicians vowed to support Jose Manuel Barroso&#39;s new European Commission cabinet, after he reshuffled his team.
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, yesterday won greater room for manoeuvre to reshape his team and finally win MEPs&#39; approval when he forced Latvia to drop its nominee for one of the 24 commissioner posts.
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Incoming EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso claimed tonight that his new 25-member team deserved the European parliamentâs full support.
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MEPs are demanding sweeping new powers to vote on, and sack, individual European Commissioners as the price for backing JosÃ© Manuel Barrosoâs new EU executive.
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European leaders will seek to reassure sceptical voters at a summit starting on Thursday by toughening policy on enlargement of the European Union, without though slamming the door on a queue of aspiring ...Comment
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Several MEPs call for the EU to match a proposed ban on Nazi symbols by outlawing communist signs.
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso is ready to sign-up to a new agreement expected to boost European Parliament power to hold the EU executive to account.
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Ending three weeks of stalemate, European lawmakers have approved a new executive commission for the European Union. European MPs had refused to accept a new team of commissioners proposed by Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
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The European Parliament challenges conservative appointee Rocco Buttiglione.
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The incoming president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is to meet party leaders in the European Parliament. This morning&#39;s meeting is a bid to avert a crisis over the nomination of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner.
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New EU member states must not be sidelined say Tony Blair and his Hungarian counterpart.
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The EU leadership issue is essential. This entity, whose powers are so extensive, needs firm leadership.
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Germany's state governments will this week ask parliament for the freedom to further extend shop-opening hours, long seen as one of the most visible symbols of the heavy regulation of the country's economy.
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the new European commission president, offered MEPs a powerful role in reshaping the EU&#39;s political, economic and social agenda and redefining its relations with the world after winning resounding backing for his team yesterday.
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The European Union is expanding plans to set up several elite battle groups for rapid deployment to international trouble spots.