EU commissioners gird for parliamentary grilling
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The EU's incoming executive commissioners face confirmation hearings at the European Parliament this week -- with some of the more controversial figures braced for a hostile grilling.
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The European Commission&#39;s (EC) president-elect, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Tuesday defended his team of commissioners in the European Parliament (EP) in a bid to secure
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Approved by two thirds of the MEPs, the Barroso II Commission is due to take office on 22 November. Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage took the shine off the subsequent celebrations by attacking French Transport
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today defended two of his under-fire team. Euro MPs questioned the appointment of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as a Commissioner after he said homosexuality was a sin.
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Today's papers hotly debate the incoming EU leader's decision to back down on his choice of commissioners.
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The incoming Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, will today seek to head-off a disastrous parliamentary vote of no-confidence in his team of Commissioners by offering fresh pledges on anti-discrimination measures.
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The 24 EU commissioners-designate face confirmation hearings in the European Parliament.
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Following the hearings of the three new candidates for Jose Manuel Barroso&#39;s European Commission, the European Parliament seems set to give the new ensemble the green light to get to work.
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Peter Mandelson faces a three-hour grilling from MEPs before taking up the job as Europe's trade commissioner.
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European Union foreign ministers sought Friday to present a united front over the status of Kosovo, playing down divisions over how much autonomy the Serbian province should win.
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The EU&#39;s new team of Commissioners has voiced confidence that it will scrape through an approval vote in the European Parliament, but the Socialists said they almost had enough support to bring it down.
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BRUSSELS The dispute that engulfed Rocco Buttiglione and the 732-member European Parliament last week was partly about a prospective member of Europe&#39;s executive body professing unacceptable views and the legislature rising up to censure him.
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Northern Irelandâs MPs and MEPs are to be given the chance to take part in debates in the Irish Republicâs Parliament if a comprehensive peace process deal is struck in the coming week, it was claimed today.
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A political compromise to save the job of the new European Commissioner who thinks homosexuality is a sin was put to Euro MPs in Brussels today.
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A fresh row is threatening to mar the first day in office of the new European Commission on Monday. France&#39;s commissioner Jacques Barrot is under fire for failing to disclose a previous conviction for embezzlement.
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From Commons grilling on public sector reform to a missed lunch at the heart of Europe
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to hold talks with the EU commissioner in charge of the blocâs enlargement process Guenter Verheugen, and members of the European Parliament, including European Parliament chief Josep Borrell, as well as