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Mr Barroso - currently working on political guidelines for the next commission programme (Photo: EUobserver)

MEPs to vote on Barroso in September

by Honor Mahony, Brussels,

Political group leaders in the European Parliament are on Thursday set to decide to put a vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid for a second term as European commission president on September's plenary agenda.

The move follows a gentleman's agreement between the three biggest groups in the parliament, the centre-right EPP, the Socialists and the Liberals.

"Tomorrow we will set the date for a vote in September," said Joseph Daul, head of the EPP, on Wednesday (15 July), whose group is ...

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Mr Barroso - currently working on political guidelines for the next commission programme (Photo: EUobserver)

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