MEPs Ponder Compromise over Anti-Gay Commissioner
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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 today.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (IPS) - Immigration policy threatens to divide EU member  states as the new European Commission looks for a common stand.
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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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The European Parliament is set to hold a debate as it prepares to decide the fate of the incoming commission.
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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.
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BRUSSELS : The new European Union commission chief has full confidence in his team despite the refusal by European Parliament members to endorse Italy&#39;s Rocco Buttiglione as justice commissioner because of his views on gays, the EU&#39;s executive body
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MEPs have voted to approve the new European Commission team. The result was 449 votes in favour to 149 votes against with 82 abstentions.
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As the new European Commission (EC) started to take up office on Monday, it was still overshadowed by quarrels over French European Commissioner Jacques Barrot&#39;s conviction.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday risked provoking an institutional crisis in the EU by defying calls from members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to dump Rocco Buttiglione, an outspoken opponent of gay and women&#39;s rights, as
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BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (IPS) - The new European Commission gets going this week  after a three-week delay but the start was clouded by a debate  over the integrity of some of its commissioners.
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A European Parliament committee has narrowly voted to oppose Italian Rocco Buttiglione as the EU&#39;s next justice commissioner, officials say.
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels and Bruce Johnston in Rome. The European Union&#39;s incoming justice commissioner accused MEPs yesterday of anti-Catholic &quot;fundamentalism&quot; after they voted him unfit to take
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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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The Church of England is to consider possible rules for settling Anglican disputes, amid the row over gay priests.
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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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Three would-be commissioners are to take part in fresh hearings at the European Parliament.
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The EU parliament appears likely to reject incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso&#39;s choice of commissioners tomorrow after he refused to make concessions.