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Tue 06 Jun 2004Largest EU party will not accept Ahern's nominationThe centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission, writes Denis Staunton in BrusselsA spokesman told The Irish Times the group was adamant that Mr Romano Prodi's successor should belong to one of its constituent parties.