Martin Schulz: Social-democrats Won't Vote for Barroso
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Channel: Euractiv · 2009 · News & Politics
Martin Schulz, the president of the social-democrat group in the European Parliament, said on Thursday that his group will never vote in favour of a second five-year term for Jose Manuel Barroso as President of the European Commission, the top executive body of the union. Schulz said that the heads of state and government of the union first need to make clear which rules to apply. Those under the Lisbon Treaty, which remains to be ratified by Ireland, or those under the Nice Treaty, which is not considered effective enough and which would require one member state to give up its seat in the commission.
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