AFP / Yahoo News: EU's Juncker wins green light for 'last chance' team - "The possibility of Britain leaving the EU in a planned 2017 referendum is another problem Juncker has to face, but he said he was 'not prepared to change' EU migration rules in response to demands from London." (Sorry, your 'last chance' was years ago. Along with leaders like Obama, Cameron and Hollande, you need to be swept out of office on a wave of voter disgust.)

EU's Juncker wins green light for 'last chance' team



Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - The EU's incoming chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker vowed Wednesday to seize the "last chance" for the bloc as his team of commissioners won parliamentary approval to start work on a stalling economy and foreign policy challenges.

The European Parliament in Strasbourg voted by 423 to 209 in favour of Juncker's European Commission, which will have a five-year mandate as the union's executive branch starting on November 1.

But with disillusioned voters fearing a return of the economic crisis in the eurozone, suffering from high unemployment, and increasingly turning to anti-EU parties, Juncker said the new commission had to act now.

"This is the last-chance commission," the former Luxembourg prime minister said in a speech ahead of the vote. ...

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