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Incoming European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso faces an uproar in the European Parliament that could cost him his job before it's even slated to begin on Nov. 1. Barroso's problem starts with his designated Commissioner for Justice, Security and Freedom, Rocco Buttiglione, formerly Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's Minister for European Affairs. When he testified on Oct. 5 before the Parliament, Buttiglione mentioned that he considers homosexuality a sin and holds the "traditional" view that marriage is meant to give a "woman the right to have children and the protection...
...June 17 summit, when the Union's leaders failed to agree on the successor to Romano Prodi, whose term ends in October. As Time went to press, the national leaders appeared close to agreement on a compromise candidate, the mild-mannered Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, 48. Barroso's support for the war in Iraq meant he had to overcome the reservations of the French and Spanish leaders, since deep differences still fester over Iraq. The new constitutional treaty, which will face referendums in 10 states - including, it was announced recently, Spain and Portugal - isn't enough...
...whole. Smaller states are still smarting over the laxity shown when France and Germany violated the Stability and Growth Pact last year, after many of them had to endure painful budget cuts and pay fines for similar failings. Last week, Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso said, "We do not accept that two or three countries should make the decisions and then serve us up the meal." So in focusing on the E.U.'s litany of economic woes - underfunded state pensions, low productivity, slow growth, high unemployment - this week's summit will intrude upon sensitive territory...
...pedophiles in the Casa Pia system. Officials estimate that more than 100 boys and girls, some of them deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused. The government has promised to let Pestana take a broom to Casa Pia. Doing so would help Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, whose Social Democratic Party ousted the Socialists in March last year, make good on his vow to bring life and honor back into Portugal's public institutions. The Casa Pia scandal should give him plenty of ideas about where to begin...
...BOTTOM LINE It's like the legend of Ulysses. The pact helps a government to tie itself to the mast and resist the sirens. JOSE MANUEL DURAO BARROSO, Portugal's Prime Minister, on supporting the Stability and Growth Pact