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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9926

23 June 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/commission
Swedish Presidency favours vote on Jose Manuel Barroso in July - other posts to be discussed after Irish referendum

Brussels, 22/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - The upcoming Swedish EU Presidency trusts that the political groups of the new European Parliament will decide to vote, as early as July, on the proposal by the European Council to renew José Manuel Barroso in his post at the head of the next European Commission. This was announced on Monday 22 June by Swedish Foreign Minister Cecilia Malmström, speaking before the press in Brussels. Putting off the vote by MEPs till the autumn (as the Greens and...

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