The EC abstained, I didn't bother to check whether they had a position. GUE/NGL of course views the new commission as the same old same old neoliberal, and delcared the powerless EP is only giving its stamp on a decision on persons and portfolios made by others. As for the Greens, Cohn-Bendit declared that the Grander Coalition is a coalition of hypocrites (because especially the SocDems criticise the commissioners and Barroso but then vote for them), Barroso's new philosophy is that the sum of zeros is positive (seeing a line of incompetent and visionless commissioners).

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}