The European Commission will set out its views on EU treaty change by early next year noting that ideas that now seem like “political science fiction” will eventually become reality.
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A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like “political science fiction” today but will soon become reality for all European Union countries whether inside or outside the euro, Jose Manuel Barroso has said.
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Speaking alongside Barroso at a conference in Moscow, he called the EU’s original Cypriot bailout idea “to put it mildly, surprising … absurd … preposterous.”
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“I know many parts of our societies attribute the current difficulties to European Union level and this is not fair because it was not the European Union that created the problems,” Barroso told reporters at Dublin Castle.
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The Netherlands will soon hold a top job within the European Union, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso told the Volkskrant on Saturday.
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José Manuel Barroso’s congratulatory message following the recent parliamentary election in Romania carries two important messages: it tells President Traian BÃ�sescu that he should re-appoint Victor Ponta as prime minister, and warns Ponta he should work with BÃ�sescu instead of reviving efforts to impeach him.
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A day after receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace on behalf of the European Union, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso answered questions from euronews’ Isabelle Kumar and 33 students on the European Erasmus exchange program.
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The European Commission (EC) is intent on establishing a separate budget for the eurozone, despite strong reservations from Poland and other non-eurozone members.
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The current European Commission administration is performing badly two years into its term, say more than half of respondents to a Burson-Marsteller and EurActiv survey.
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Austerity policies and budget cuts are “unanimous decisions by member states,” and not imposed by Brussels or Washington on countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain, EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday at a conference in Brussels. “It’s important to put the responsibility straight,” he insisted.
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