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Fewer MEPs, fewer commissioners, argues a Spanish deputy (Photo: European Parliament)

No prolonged mandate for Barroso, MEPs warn

If the Lisbon Treaty is not in place by June 2009, member states should keep their word on slimming down the European Commission, centre-right MEPs have argued, warning that parliamentarians would be reluctant to support a prolonged mandate for the current team of commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

"Time is against us," Spanish conservative deputy Inigo Mendez de Vigo from the constitutional affairs committee in the European Parliament told journalists on Thursday (9 October), fo...

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Fewer MEPs, fewer commissioners, argues a Spanish deputy (Photo: European Parliament)

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