European Commission crisis averted as Buttiglione dumped
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Italy&#39;s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has bowed to the inevitable, abandoning his push to make Rocco Buttiglione a European Commissioner and opening the way for a solution to an unprecedented EU crisis.
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Italy&#39;s Rocco Buttiglione said on Saturday that he was ready to pull out from the European Commission of incoming President Jose Manuel Barroso.
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The president-elect of the European Commission has withdrawn his proposed EU executive team to avoid an unprecedented European Parliament defeat, plunging the 25-nation bloc into political turmoil.
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Italy&#39;s European commissioner-designate, Rocco Buttiglione, faced a formal call from MEPs for his resignation yesterday over his description of homosexuality as a &quot;sin&quot;.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (18/11/04) - The EU has ended its three-week institutional crisis, as European lawmakers voted in favor of its reshuffled executive body led by former Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso.
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European Union lawmakers finally approved a new executive commission, ending three weeks of limbo sparked by an unprecedented row over the line-up.
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The onus now falls on EU leaders to resolve the crisis over the incoming European Commission in the wake of the dramatic showdown between its president Jose Manuel Barroso and the European Parliament.
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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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Rocco Buttiglione, an Italian Minister who was selected to be a part of the European Union (EU) Commission under the incoming presidency of Jose Manuel Barroso, said that he would withdraw from his post amid anger over contentious remarks he made about
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,  seeking to defuse an unprecedented crisis in the EU executive,  said Rocco Buttiglione would most likely be replaced as Italy's  candidate for the European Commission.
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, president-designate of the European commission, has a crisis on his hands. The former Portuguese prime minister won plaudits in the summer for picking his Brussels team without bending to the will of powerful EU governments.
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European Union lawmakers approved the bloc's new executive commission, ending three weeks of limbo sparked by an unprecedented institutional face-off.
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Controversial Italian nominee Rocco Buttiglione has announced he is withdrawing his candidacy after it threatened to bring down the European Commission.
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LONDON (CP) - The European Union&#39;s political machinery was thrown into reverse on Wednesday as the new president of the European Commission backed down from a vote on his proposed cabinet over a controversial Italian commissioner.
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BRUSSELS: Crisis is looming over the EU's new executive after a key European Parliament committee rejected Italian Rocco Buttiglione as justice and security chief because of his traditional views on ...
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BRUSSELS  - The European Union executive body dropped disciplinary action against serial deficit offenders France and Germany, ending a three-year standoff that left the eurozone&#39;s budget rules crippled.
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BRUXELLES/ROMA - Doppio no del parlamento europeo a Rocco Buttiglione. La commissione libertÃ  pubbliche ha bocciato di stretta misura il candidato italiano alla prossima commissione di Bruxelles. Non era mai accaduto in passato.