European Press Review: Crisis Brewing in the EU
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European newspapers on Wednesday focused on controversial designated EU commissioner Rocco Buttiglione, who has sparked an uproar with his strong views on homosexuality and the role of women.
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Kosovo's elections, Wednesday's decisive vote in the European Parliament to determine the fate of the new EU Commission, and the Spanish Catholic Church's questioning of some of the Madrid government's policies are among the topics in which today's papers take an interest.
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The prospect of the powerful Commission being sunk even before it has been launched has given European editorial writers plenty of food for thought on Friday.
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The EU leadership issue is essential. This entity, whose powers are so extensive, needs firm leadership.
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The enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 member-states with nine new languages has created a kind of linguistic big bang in Brussels, with new headaches for intepreters.
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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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Europe's papers debate Turkish EU membership ahead of a key decision on negotiations, French papers demand a parliamentary inquiry, and a Swedish paper welcomes the closing down of a nuclear power station.
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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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Tuesday's papers focus on the latest wave of Eta bombings in Spain and the continuing political crisis in Ukraine.
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Comment on the German mainstream parties' latest electoral setback in two eastern states provides one of the main topics in today's European dailies. In France, President Jacques Chirac and three new-found allies earn brownie points.
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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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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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Thursday's EU-Russia summit in The Hague provides the European press with a new angle for its continuing focus on the political crisis in Ukraine.
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Tuesday's European papers tackle the continuing Hungarian unrest, Austria's political future and Chirac's new life as a potential future non-smoker
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Tuesday's papers look at intercommunal tension in the Netherlands and the far right in Germany
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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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Many papers look ahead to today's vote in the European Parliament which might result in the first stillborn EU Commission.