José Manuel Barroso

...confirmation hearings in the week of Jan. 18. Posted on Fri, Nov. 27, 2009 07:24 AM Barroso unveils lineup of new European Commission FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007 file photo Denmark's Environment Minister Connie...

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...meet in Washington. Reinfeldt - whose country holds the rotating EU presidency - will be traveling to Washington along with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. Join the discussion

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...to take effect in January 2009 Speaking in Washington ahead of an EU-US summit, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso welcomed the removal of the "last hurdle" to the treaty's passage. "I think that the transformational...

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...ministers meet in December. Barroso said he would discuss a comprehensive strategy that focused on improving governance and increasing training of Afghan security forces with Obama later on Tuesday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who...

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...the United States. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the EU Presidency, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, met with US...

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...as a check on Cameron," said one official. Jose Manuel Barroso, the commission president, has also backed the ideas of the president being more of a committee chairman rather than a world leader. Only yesterday John Bruton, the Commission's...

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The president told the audience at an evening concert in the East Room that classical music is "lifting hearts and spurring imaginations" all across the nation, and is something to be enjoyed by aficionados and the uninitiated alike. The...

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