Buttiglione backs down in EU Commission row
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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 future of the controversial new EU commissioner-designate Rocco Buttiglione remained in the balance today, after it emerged that MEPs had voted against him taking up his justice and home affairs post - or any other.
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(AGI) - Roma, 30 ott. - Commissione Ue: Buttiglione si fa da parte. &quot;FavorirÃ² percorso commissione Barroso, ma sono vittima innocente&quot;. - Rocco Buttiglione parla in spagnolo e cita un pensatore francese per dire che in Europa non ci va piu&#39;.
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A committee votes against Italian Rocco Buttiglione as the EU's next justice, freedom and security commissioner, officials say.
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Italy's anti-gay nominee for EU justice commissioner, Rocco Buttiglione, hints he might quit the post.
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(AGI) - Roma, 1 nov. - I commenti del presidente del Senato Marcello Pera sulla bocciatura di Buttiglione in Europa hanno scatenato aspre polemiche tra centrodestra e opposizione. Difendendo Buttiglione, Pera
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BRUSSELS The decision by Rocco Buttiglione to relinquish his claim on the European Commission&#39;s justice and security portfolio means JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the incoming president, will be able to get Parliament&#39;s approval for a new college of commissioners
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the incoming European commission president, today failed in a bid to appease key European parties demanding that the justice minister designate, Rocco Buttiglione, be removed.
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Incoming EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso refused on Thursday to bow to socialist demands to ditch justice chief Rocco Buttiglione after the Italian apologised for calling homosexuality a sin.
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the incoming European commission president, was under strong pressure last night to dump Rocco Buttiglione, a professed opponent of women&#39;s and gay rights, as the next commissioner for justice and security, after the European
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La commissione LibertÃ  pubbliche del Parlamento europeo ha bocciato a strettissima maggioranza la candidatura di Rocco Buttiglione a commissario per la Giustizia, LibertÃ  e Sicurezza. Ventisette europarlamentari
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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the new European commission president, yesterday risked provoking an institutional crisis in the EU by defying MEPs&#39; calls to dump Rocco Buttiglione, an outspoken opponent of gay and women&#39;s rights, as justice and civil liberties
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Italy has kept the European Union waiting for a new executive Commission while Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took his time naming a replacement for the controversial Rocco Buttiglione.
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STRASBOURG A backlash against an Italian commissioner with conservative social views steered the European Union into crisis Wednesday when JosÃ© Manuel Barroso was forced to delay the vote on the new European Commission.
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INCOMING European Security and Justice Commissioner Rocco Buttiglione has inflamed the bitter row over his appointment with a withering criticism of single mothers.
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Brussels - EU commissioner-designate Rocco Buttiglione sought on Thursday to defuse a row over controversial comments he made about homosexuals and women, offering to give up some powers in return for keeping the job.