EU to adopt Japan's tighter thresholds for radiation in food

The head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, took German leaders to task Tuesday in a press interview for failing to drum up popular support for the crisis-hit euro.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on Europe Tuesday to match economic might with diplomatic muscle in his first ever State of the Union address.In an event seeking to emulate the annual speech delivered by US presidents before the US Congress, Barroso expressed optimism about the economic outlook but urged a deepening of the single market in order to boost growth and jobs.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday defended the measures taken to tame the debt crisis, putting eurosceptics on notice ahead of EU elections next year.Barroso said the European Union "fought back" as member states realised they had to act together to get through the 2008 global financial crisis and then the debt crisis and economic slump which followed."What matters now is what we make of what we have achieved," he told the European Parliament in the last "state of the union" address of his term as head of the EU's executive arm.

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Portuguese budget cuts voted down by parliament in Lisbon are "indispensable," the head of the European Commission, ex-Portugal premier Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on Europe Tuesday to match economic might with diplomatic muscle in his first ever State of the Union address.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on Europe Tuesday to match economic might with diplomatic muscle in his first ever State of the Union address.