15-11-2004, 05:39 AM
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MEPs seek more power over Commission
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...359182,00.html
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EURO MPs are looking to wring yet more political concessions from José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President-designate, before agreeing to vote his 24-strong team INTO phpbb_office this week.
The European Parliament has already forced Romano Prodi’s successor to discard two of his future colleagues and to reshuffle a brace of policy portfolios after the original nominees sparked a storm of protests.
Buoyed by that unprecedented success, many MEPs aim to strengthen their powers over the Brussels Executive by securing a political commitment from Senhor Barroso that, in future, any commissioner who loses the confidence of the Parliament would have to resign.
The incoming Commission President will be very reluctant to make such a pledge. It would increase considerably the Parliament’s political leverage, since at the moment it may use only the nuclear option of forcing all, not single, commissioners, to resign — but he may be forced to agree to the commitment to end the political crisis that has hung over the European Union since last month, when Euro MPs effectively rejected his original line-up. Since then, much EU business has been paralysed as Signor Prodi’s Commission has stayed on in a caretaker capacity.
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