Incoming Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso has decided to keep his controversial new team of Commissioners exactly the way it is - increasing the risk of the whole team being voted down by MEPs next week.
Following a meeting with the leaders of the political groups in the European Parliament on Thursday, Mr Barroso asked, "is it reasonable to make a Commission fall because two or three Commissioners are not satisfactory"?
He told MEPs that he would keep Rocco Buttigli...
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