EU official in beach holiday row
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EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen is in the media spotlight over a holiday he took with a female aide.
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The European Parliament will grill incoming EU commissioners over the next two weeks with questioning likely to focus on potential conflicts of interest of a few wealthy members of Jose Manuel Durao Barroso's ...
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The incoming European Commission president is to meet top MEPs to defuse the crisis over the new justice commissioner.
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Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot has been trying to defuse a row over a European Union statement on Russia&#39;s handling of the Beslan hostage crisis.
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The new European Commission has spent its first day in office trying to quell a storm over the previously undisclosed, amnestied conviction of one of its members for party funding offences.
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The European Union executive expressed concern after a new penal code in Turkey seen as crucial to the country's bid to join the EU was left in parliamentary limbo.
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Parliament challenges conservative appointee Wednesday. PARIS For a man belittled months ago as an obscure weakling, Jose Manuel Barroso is stirring up a lot of trouble.
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BRUSSELS  - Incoming European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso stuck by his controversial pick for EU justice chief in the face of a furious row with EU lawmakers ahead of a confirmation vote.
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The row over Italy's choice as its European commissioner dominates today's papers.
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Foreign Minister Tuomioja wants equal treatment for Turkey in EU Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja (SDP) disagrees with an Austrian proposal to place permanent restrictions on Turkey if it ...
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A top official in Italy has called on the European Union to help Libya stem the flow of illegal migrants moving northwards across the Mediterranean.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 3 (IPS) - The EU is stepping up relief efforts in the  tsunami-hit areas around the Indian Ocean.
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The incoming president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is to meet party leaders in the European Parliament. This morning&#39;s meeting is a bid to avert a crisis over the nomination of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner.
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Travel: Carole Cadwalladr asks how Brown will fare in the political minefield that is the summer holiday.
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The incoming European Commission president is to meet parliament heads to defuse the crisis over his proposed justice commissioner.
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Europe&#39;s top trade official yesterday called for a &quot;fresh start&quot; in trans-Atlantic relations, less than a week before he is to meet his US counterpart to discuss grating commercial disputes.
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The incoming head of the European Commission, the European Union&#39;s executive body, says he will stand by a controversial appointee to his cabinet despite widespread opposition to the nominee among members of the European Parliament.