Italian Minister Withdraws as Candidate for EU Commission
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Under attack for calling homosexuality sinful, Italian cabinet minister and papal confidant Rocco Buttiglione said Saturday that he was abandoning efforts to become the
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Rocco Buttiglione has been rejected for the EUâs justice job by MEPs as a row over the line-up of JosÃ© Manuel Barrosoâs European Commission hots up.
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Italy's support for a conservative with outspoken views on gays and women as Europe's justice chief looked increasingly untenable as incoming EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso indicated he would bow ...
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Italy's government looked on the verge of collapse on Tuesday after an ally of Prime Minister Romano Prodi deserted the centre-left coalition, depriving him of a parliamentary majority.
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Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian official who declared homosexuality a sin to the anger of left-leaning members of the European Parliament (MEPs), has withdrawn his nomination as chief of justice for the European Commission.
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Italian Rocco Buttiglione, dropped from the new European Commission line-up after fierce criticism of his views on gays and marriage, says he is a victim of unfair discrimination.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Thursday following 20 rocky months in office after the centre-left leader lost a vote of confidence in the Senate.
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Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister nominated to become the European Union's new justice and security commissioner, faces a grilling on Monday by members of the European Parliament about his role in ...
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Italy's choice for a European Commission post, who sparked an uproar with his comments on homosexuality and women, said Saturday he will step aside.
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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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ROME: Calling himself âan innocent victimâ, Italyâs Rocco Buttiglione withdrew as a candidate for the incoming European Commission on Saturday to help ease an unprecedented crisis for the executive.
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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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Italy's ex-justice minister Clemente Mastella on Thursday pulled his small party out of the ruling centre-left coalition, putting Prime Minister Romano Prodi's political future on the line.
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LONDON : Italy&#39;s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has slammed the refusal by European lawmakers to endorse Italy&#39;s candidate for justice commissioner because of his views on gays as an attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre
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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'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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The Italian politician who turned the nation&#39;s neo-Fascist party into a mainstream conservative party has become the foreign minister.