EU turmoil as chief withdraws Commission team
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The incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today withdrew his proposed 24-member executive after it became evident the European Parliament would veto the team.
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says he will make changes in his proposed commission, one day after withdrawing his slate in the face of a likely European Parliament veto.
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is to present to the European Parliament his new team of commissioners on Thursday.
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In a surprise move amid a broadening controversy over an antigay appointee, incoming European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso withdrew his proposed 24-member executive team from consideration by the European Parliament on Wednesday, realizing he
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The European Parliament approved the reshuffled 24-member European Union executive on Thursday, ending a political showdown with incoming EU chief Jose Manuel Barroso over objections to his team.
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STRASBOURG: A majority of the European Parliament appeared Tuesday to be preparing to reject the incoming commission proposed by President-designate JosÃ© Manuel Barroso - the most serious rebellion against a new commission in the history of the European
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BRUSSELS, Oct 27 (IPS) - Incoming European Commission president Jose  Manuel  DurÃ£o Barroso faced further embarrassment Wednesday after he was   forced to ask the European Parliament to delay a crucial vote  over his  new team of commissioners.
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ROME  - Rocco Buttiglione, who brought EU affairs to a halt with his views that homosexuality is a sin and that women should stay home looking after children, said that he was stepping down as candidate to become the new European commissioner for
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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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Hungaryâs Laszlo Kovacs, Italyâs Franco Frattini and Latviaâs Andris Piebalgs were interviewed on Monday and yesterday. Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso had to change his proposed team after it became
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LISBON, Dec 1 (IPS) - By deciding not to comment on the political crisis   that has broken out in Portugal, the president of the European  Commission,  JosÃ© Manuel Durao Barroso, chose to elude the  responsibility he assumed in  July when he named Pedro Santana  Lopes as his successor at the head of the  Portuguese government.
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Slovak Members of the European Parliament differ on the European Commission president-designate Jose Manuel Barroso&#39;s decision on Wednesday to withdraw his proposed team only hours before the EP vote on his commission&#39;s future.
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ROME, October 31 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Italian Rocco Buttiglione, whose remarks on homosexuality and the role of women sparked an uproar, said Saturday, October 30, he withdrew his candidacy as new European commissioner for justice
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BRUSSELS JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the incoming president of the European Commission, received a fresh rebuff Tuesday as Parliament refused to endorse the appointment of a commission candidate and the furor continued over Rocco Buttiglione, the proposed
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Tony Blair will tomorrow join other European Union leaders in Rome amid the growing crisis over the appointment of a new Brussels Commission.
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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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The president-elect of the European Commission on Wednesday withdrew his proposed executive team from consideration by the European Parliament to avoid an unprecedented rejection.