Pope's ally sparks EU power battle over views on sex
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ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE has inflamed the bitter row over his appointment as Europe s next Security and Justice Commissioner with a withering criticism of single mothers.
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LONDON, Aug 21 (IPS) - A new missive on women from the Vatican followed   by a strong response to it has brought new spark to an old  debate.
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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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Gay rights activists say Vatican influence fuels discrimination against gay people in Italy.
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Pope Benedict XVI faces a delicate balancing act in Turkey as he tries to improve Christian-Muslim ties.
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The case of Rocco Buttiglione, the EU commissioner-designate under fire for making disparaging remarks about homosexuals and single mothers, is back on Italy&#39;s front pages.
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The European Parliament on Thursday threatened to veto the entire incoming European Union executive commission unless Italy's nominee for Justice Commissioner &#151; who earlier described homosexuality as a sin &#151; was dropped from the list.
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Newer EU members are struggling to promote a more traditional morality.
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Incoming EU Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso says he will not replace EU nominee Rocco Buttiglione as justice chief in a controversy over his views on homosexuality and marriage, an EU lawmaker says.
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The battle of wills was hotting up tonight over the political fate of an Italian European Commissioner-designate who thinks homosexuality is a sin.
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European Commission President- designate Jose Barroso battled to save his commission from European Parliament rejection, pledging an anti-discrimination law to placate opponents of a disputed Italian nominee.
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BRUSSELS Frits Bolkestein, one of the European Union&#39;s most outspoken commissioners, stirred controversy Tuesday after he seemed to try to raise concerns that admitting Turkey to the EU would make Europe more Islamic.
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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 yesterday.
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The Spanish government approved a bill to legalise homosexual marriages, which will make it only the third country in Europe to condone same-sex marriages -- but the move sparked fury within a still influential Roman Catholic Church.
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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 new European Commission president said Thursday he will not back down on his selection of Rocco Buttiglione as justice commissioner, despite controversy over Buttiglione&#39;s anti-gay comments, the Telegraph newspaper reports.