José Manuel Durão Barroso will on Thursday (21 October) face his biggest political test since agreeing to become the next European Commission President.
The former Portuguese prime minister will have to engineer a deal with the European Parliament that will diffuse the current crisis over his team of Commissioners.
The deal, while pandering to the wishes of MEPs - several of whom are gunning for Italian Commissioner Rocco Buttiglione following his conservative comments on gays and...
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