EU lawmakers approve new commission, ending limbo
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European Union lawmakers approved the bloc's new executive commission, ending three weeks of institutional limbo sparked by protests over comments on gays and women by an Italian nominee.
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European editorials on Friday had a lot to say about the new European Commission which has now been approved by the EU parliament.
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The European Union gave the final approval Saturday for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo.
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The European Parliament voted into office a new European Commission headed by former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Barroso today.
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BRUSSELS  - Incoming EU executive head Jose Manuel Barroso said he hopes for &quot;clear&quot; approval when EU lawmakers finally vote on his new team later this month, to end an unprecedented state of limbo in Brussels.
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The embattled European Union claimed progress in charting a way out of a year-old constitutional limbo, but offered little concrete beyond extending a &amp;quot;period of reflection&amp;quot; on resolving the impasse.
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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 chief Barroso finalises a new team, needed to settle a damaging row with MEPs.
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French lawmakers, mending wounds left by a national referendum that helped bury the proposed European Union constitution in 2005, voted Thursday to ratify a slimmed-down treaty meant to get the EU moving again.
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European Union leaders voiced relief at clinching a deal on Friday on a treaty to reform the 27-nation bloc's institutions, replacing a defunct constitution and ending a two-year crisis of confidence in Europe's future.
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Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, yesterday won the big majority from MEPs he needed for his new team of commissioners, as a three-week political crisis ended.
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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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EU lawmakers endorsed a deal Wednesday to cap mobile phone roaming fees in the 27-nation bloc
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New candidates for the reshuffled European Commission have won support from MEPs after grillings at the European Parliament.
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With a decision that surprised few who have followed the saga, the European Commission said today it has cleared the way for Oracle Corp.
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Europe Minister Dr Denis MacShane today welcomed the European Parliamentâs support for the new EU Commission. âI welcome the European Parliamentâs strong vote for the new Commission today.
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LISBON - European Union leaders gathering here last night agreed on a treaty that they hoped would end the drift plaguing the bloc since the French and the Dutch rejected a European constitution two years ago.