EU boss defiant over key official
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The EU Commission chief backs his team after an Italian was controversially rejected by a panel of MEPs.
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The incoming head of the European Commission has been trying to end a dispute which threatens to leave the EU without an executive.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 24 (IPS) - The European Union's top trade official has  refused to accept African demands that he grant them lengthy  transition periods for removing restrictions on imports under a  new market opening deal.
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A top European Union judge  challenged the EU executive's reasoning in its antitrust court  battle with Microsoft Corp. Friday, questioning why it opposed  the U.S. software giant's setting industry standards.
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concessions to the European Parliament and is standing by a disputed nominee on the eve of a confidence vote in his team. the justice and home affairs portfolio, saying such
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The Dutch woman nominated to the powerful post of European Union antitrust commissioner insisted during her confirmation hearing Tuesday that her extensive background in the corporate world did not mean she would be soft on big business.
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'KGB tactics' threaten EU partnership agreement as Miliband wades into crisis over staff intimidation
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The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency is unlikely to drop plans for a new term despite US anger after pre-election revelations of missing Iraq explosives, a diplomat close to the agency said Saturday.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief denied Thursday that he recently met with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which the EU has blacklisted as a terrorist organization.
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BRUSSELS JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the incoming president of the European Commission, received a fresh rebuff Tuesday as Parliament refused to endorse the appointment of a commission candidate and the furor continued over Rocco Buttiglione, the proposed
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Rocco Buttiglione, the incoming EU commissioner for justice and civil liberties, looks set to cling onto his job despite widespread outrage at his recent right wing comments about sexual diversity and women.
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The new European Union commission chief has full confidence in his team despite the refusal by European Parliament members to endorse Italy's Rocco Buttiglione as justice commissioner because of his views on gays, the EU's executive body revealed.
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The EU top executive pledged Friday to keep pressure on Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor it has sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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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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Erkki Liikanen, the Governor of the Bank of Finland, strongly defends the Stability and Growth Pact of the European Union.
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The European Union&#39;s new executive chief has been forced to back down over his team of commissioners amid opposition in the European Parliament.