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E.U. official hangs on to his job

Brussels: The E.U.'s new transport chief, Jacques Barrot, on Monday night clung to office despite a continuing row over his failure to disclose his amnestied conviction in connection with a French political party funding scandal. Mr. Barrot, a Commission Vice-President, won lukewarm backing from Jose Manuel Barroso, the President, who was forced to spend a month reshuffling his original 24-man team before winning approval last week from the European Parliament. Mr. Barroso made plain that he ``would have preferred'' the French politician to have made public his sentence and amnesty before he was appointed to the regional policy post in the previous commission on April 1. He only found out when Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party's MEPs (member of the Europe Parliament), attacked Mr. Barrot in a general condemnation of the new Barroso team minutes before the Parliament gave it a two-thirds majority approval last Thursday. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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