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novembro 09, 2004
Barroso presents revamped team
Fonte: The Times
Barroso presents revamped team
From Rory Watson in Brussels
THE European Commission President-designate sought to restore his battered authority last night by presenting a reshaped 24-strong team for approval by Euro MPs.
After the European Parliament had rejected his original line-up last week, José Manuel Durão Barroso, the former Portuguese Prime Minister, made the minimum number of changes that he considers necessary to win wide support among MEPs.
The initiative, on the first day of the EU leaders’ Brussels summit, is designed to end the political impasse and to enable the Barroso Commission, which should have taken up office last Monday, to begin working this month. “We are back on track,” Senhor Barroso said. “We need to get down to work quickly.”
The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place late yesterday when Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Premier, nominated Franco Frattini, his country’s Foreign Minister, as Italy’s representative on the new Commission.
Signor Frattini is being lined up to take over the highly politicised justice, freedom and security portfolio after Italy’s first nominee, Rocco Buttiglione, was forced to resign because of his conservative Catholic views on homosexuality and women.
As part of the new package, the Hungarian nominee, László Kovács, who had faced criticism because of his lack of knowledge of his energy brief, will instead handle taxation.
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