Anti-gays row commissioner 'may stand down'

The Italian European Commissioner-designate whose views on homosexuality have caused a major political row today hinted that he might “renounce” his new job.

Earlier this week, centre-left Euro-MPs rejected centre-right staunch Catholic Rocco Buttiglione as unsuitable to take charge, as planned, of EU civil liberties and justice policy from next month, on account of his view that homosexuality is a sin.