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...Mandelson's call was ignored, as were the many other entreaties from member states, including Spain and Germany. Those Socialist-led governments, while never enamored of Barroso, would have much preferred to dodge a bothersome train wreck over the new Commission. But Buttiglione's comments about gays and women, and the fact that he had been nominated by Berlusconi, amounted to a cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for. "This week was the birth of a truly European Socialist faction," said Martin Schulz, the German leader of the Socialist group...
...their newfound power. At Les Aviateurs bar, a popular watering hole in Strasbourg, young M.E.P.s partied until dawn to celebrate their victory. "There isn't a parliament in the history of democracy that didn't have to fight fiercely for its powers," Edith Mastenbroek, 29, a first-term Dutch Socialist, told Time. "That we did it over an issue of human rights - that's just beautiful." Parliament's assertion of power is a boon for integrationists, who would like to see a greater role for the E.U.'s only directly elected body, but was hardly welcomed by those who want...
...appointment emerged after his party, the Union of Christian Democrats, threatened to leave Berlusconi's ruling coalition. In years past, such nominations have always received a weary pass from Parliament. This time - perhaps because more than half the M.E.P.s were first elected in June - they didn't. Greek Socialist Stavros Lambrinidis, vice chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee, says that its vote against Buttiglione created a healthy dynamic. "All the committees started focusing on the quality of the other Commissioners," he says...
...Socialist Alternative Club Treasurer Hank R. Gonzalez ’06 said that VotePair benefits Democratic voters more than it does third-party voters. “People need to be willing to choose an alternative no matter where they are,” Gonzalez said...
...declined, instead promising to spread responsibility for antidiscrimination enforcement among several new Commissioners. Not good enough, say Buttiglione's opponents. The Parliament can't turn down individual Commissioners, but it can reject the Commission as a whole. And that's exactly what some groups are threatening this week. "The Socialist Group cannot vote in favor of this Commission," says its leader, Martin Schulz of Germany. "We do not have confidence in it." Only the center-right European People's Party supports Barroso's team. Group chairman Hans-Gert Pöttering warned that rejecting the Commission "would trigger a crisis...