Tue, Feb 09 2010
THE RIGHT PATH: European Commission President Jose Barroso, seen addressing journalists on June 8 after the European Parliament elections, has had his chances of a second term in office boosted by voters who handed a majority to centre-right parties.

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Countries backpedal on support for a second term for European Commission President Jose Barroso in apparent attempts to make gains in bids for EC portfolios.
June 4 to 7 saw the simultaneous conducting of national political surveys rather than a single election.
While the centre-right victories in the European Parliament elections were a boost for Jose Barroso’s bid for a second term as European Commission President, a working coalition of socialists and Greens is moving against him – and proposals to delay a decision could trip him up, too.
The timetable for the class of 2009, from the first sitting to voting on a new European Commission.
Gordon Brown will face renewed calls for his resignation in a catastrophic night for Labour that sees its forecast share of the vote fall below 20 per cent
Centre-right formations in western Europe do well in early exit polls from EU elections. Provisional figures suggest turnout was at an all-time low in some countries, including France (40.5%) and Germany (42.2%).
The two parties in Romania's ruling coalition won the most votes in the June 7 European Parliament elections and are each expected to take one third of the 33 MEP seats on offer, exit polls showed.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has let it be known he would like a second term in office. He has his backers, but his detractors too
Football is the only thing that divides the United Kingdom and Bulgaria, prime ministers Gordon Brown and Boiko Borissov agreed at their meeting in London.
The 27-member College of Commissioners to take office after three months of delays and dramas.
WCC commends G7 relief of Haiti's debt, asks IMF to follow suit.
Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov says the funds will finance three education projects on the earthquake-devastated island.
The chances that Bulgarians or Romanians can work without a work permit in Dutch agriculture this year are almost non-existent, Dutch media concluded.