Compromise maystop commissionand MEPs clashing
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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 yesterday.
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A new round in a bitter fight over French energy privatisation has begun in parliament over a plan for Gaz de France to merge with Suez which also spotlights deep strains in European energy policy.
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The BBC's Angus Roxburgh describes how the new EU commissioners coped with cross-examination by MEPs.
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MPs and the main City watchdog are at odds over the plight of millions of policyholders &quot;trapped&quot; in closed with-profits funds.
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The Buttiglione crisis has deepened with MEPs unconvinced by the conciliation offer from President Barroso. Apologies from the Italian commissioner designate for offences made about homosexual &#39;sinners&#39; have got him nowhere.
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The European Parliament challenges conservative appointee Rocco Buttiglione.
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STRASBOURG: Centre-left MEPs will reject JosÃ© Manuel Barrosoâs new commission in a crucial vote, insist Socialist leaders. Leader of the European Parliamentâs second largest political bloc, Martin Schulz
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French transport commissioner Jacques Barrot is under pressure to explain to MEPs why he did not mention his involvement in a French political party funding scandal.
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By Stephen Castle in Brussels and Andrew Buncombe in Washington. Moves to improve the EU&#39;s fractious and often testy relations with Washington were undermined yesterday by a fresh Anglo-French clash over Iraq
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European finance ministers clashed over German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder s plea for looser budget rules, with Austria and the Netherlands warning that wider deficits would push up inflation and interest ...
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BRUSSELS The incoming president of the European Commission offered an olive branch to the European Parliament on Thursday but failed to quell a rebellion by deputies that is threatening the future of a conservative Catholic commissioner-designate, Rocco
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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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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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PRAGUE- The coalition and opposition still disagree on how far European integration should go and the differences were confirmed by the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies foreign affairs committee about the ...
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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 crisis over the composition of the European Commission that is replacing Romano Prodi's line-up has been put off to another date, probably to November 15 when the European Parliament is next scheduled to be ...
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The European Parliament is set to hold a debate as it prepares to decide the fate of the incoming commission.