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Strasbourg (FRANCE): The new European Commission will start work on Monday after its incoming President, Jose Manuel Barroso, won the guarantee of substantial support for his team on Wednesday night by making further concessions to the European Parliament. The 732 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) are expected to end the institutional crisis, which has crippled the E.U. for three weeks, by voting on Thursday in favour of his Commission of 24. This will end a struggle that forced the President to withdraw his Commission last month in the face of opposition to the anti-gay Rocco Buttiglione becoming civil liberties chief and to undertake a mini-reshuffle, with Franco Frattini, the Italian Foreign Minister, taking Mr. Buttiglione's place. Mr. Barroso should garner at least 430 votes in Thursday's recorded ballot, with senior parliamentary sources suggesting he could win considerably more, strengthening his position after the damage to his credibility inflicted by MEPs last month. The President has agreed that if MEPs carry a vote of no confidence on one of his team he will enforce his or her resignation or at least come before Parliament to explain why he refuses to sack the rejected candidate. This goes further than the agreement with the outgoing Commission of Romano Prodi, but falls short of a Liberal demand that a two-thirds vote of no confidence should trigger a commissioner's sacking.
— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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