The leading party groups in the EU agree to support all new members of the EU Commission, reports Politico and AFP.
The centre-right group EPP, the social democratic S&D, and the liberal group RE agree to back all 27 members of the next EU Commission.
This opens up the possibility for the European Parliament to vote through a new EU Commission next week. The EU Commission could start its work in Brussels as early as December, if no new disputes arise.
The prolonged dispute has mainly concerned the European Parliament's two traditional major parties: the Christian democratic conservative EPP and the social democratic S&D.
The row in Brussels has concerned several of the proposed EU Commissioners who have been presented and questioned in the European Parliament.
S&D has shown dissatisfaction with the Commissioner candidates from the far-right governments in Hungary and Italy.
EPP has countered by demanding, among other things, that the Spanish S-candidate and Climate Minister Teresa Ribera must first be questioned in her own parliament about the rain disaster in the Valencia area.
At the same time, the dispute has threatened to allow the far-right within the European Parliament to gain influence in the future EU Commission. If the disagreement had persisted between S&D and EPP, EPP could instead have chosen to cooperate not only with the SD's party group ECR but also with the more hard-line far-right in Hungarian Viktor Orbán's party group PFE and the German AFD's Russia-friendly ESN.
The European Parliament's members are divided into eight party groups:
* Christian democratic conservative EPP: 188 members (including 4 from The Moderate Party and 1 from The Christian Democrats)
* Social democratic S&D: 136 (including 5 from The Social Democratic Party)
* Nationalist conservative PFE: 86 (no Swedes)
* EU-sceptic conservative ECR: 78 (including 3 from The Sweden Democrats)
* Liberal RE: 77 (including 2 from The Centre Party and 1 from The Liberals)
* Environmentalist The Greens/EFA: 53 (including 3 from The Green Party)
* The Left - GUE/NGL: 46 (including 2 from The Left Party)
* Far-right ESN: 25 (no Swedes)
In addition, there are 30 members who do not belong to any party group
