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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8800

6 October 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/barroso commission/jha
Buttiglione is questioned on asylum and immigration proposals - "We are at war with terrorism" - Conservative positions on family and homosexuality

Brussels, 05/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - The hearing of Rocco Buttiglione, candidate to the post of Commissioner for freedom, security and justice, was not as agitated as one might have expected after the polemic that followed his statements on refugee camps this summer, but Mr Buttiglione was nonetheless questioned about this dossier as well as on his Christian conservatism. Pleasant and friendly, but hesitant when it came to defending his position, Silvio Berlusconi's minister logically...

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