Greens to vote against new Commission

The European Parliament's Greens have said that they will reject the Commission as a whole during a key vote next week.

At a meeting this morning, the Green group unanimously decided to vote against the incoming Commission led by José Manuel Durao Barroso.

Meeting on the fringes of a conference in Istanbul, the group, which has 42 of the 732 MEPs, decided that six of the proposed Commissioners where not suitable for their posts.

Isabelle Zerrouk, a spokesperson for the Gre...