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Tue 11 Nov 2009Barroso ponders moves on commission portfolio chessboard
EUROPEAN DIARY:The commission president has favours to repay in assigning portfolios, but enters the process with his own power bolstered, writes ARTHUR BEESLEY
BRUSSELS IS awash with speculation as European Commission president José Manuel Barroso awaits nominations to his new team from the Netherlands, Denmark and Malta before determining which country gets what on the EU executive.
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