Commissioner-designate Tonio Borg gets the EP's green light, MEPs vote for shale gas, and "Shun Li and the Poet" ("Io sono Li") wins the LUX Prize 2012.

Tonio Borg / Shale gas / LUX Prize

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There seemed to be not many fans of  Health Commissioner designate Tonio Borg.

Rumblings around Parliament  late on Tuesday

suggested the man from Malta  could be shown the door.

But on Wednesday  386 MEPs voted in favour of Tonio Borg

as the next Commissioner  for health and consumer affairs.

you can be Commissioner  with your personal religious beliefs.

that we are not discriminating against  certain people for ideological reasons.

Shale gas has become  a topical issue in Europe

with questions being raised  on its environmental impact.

Exploration has already begun  in a number of Member States

but France in particular  has been heavily opposed.

MEPs voted resoundingly to back the  exploration and exploitation of shale gas.

Parliament will now  wait on new surveys.

Wednesday saw the unveiling of  this year's winner of the LUX Film Prize.

Parliament President Martin Schulz  announced the winning film,

After a standing ovation, the director of  'Shun Li and the Poet' thanked MEPs

and dedicated the award  to all the 'Shun Lis', migrant mothers.