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Article: Barroso comes to town to push for Yes vote for Lisbon
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 19, 2009
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Commission president expected to unveil [euro]15m for retraining
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THE EUROPEAN Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso will arrive
in Ireland a happy man today. The 53-year-old former Portuguese
prime minister finally won re-election for a second term as head of
the EU executive this week, overcoming vocal criticism from
Socialist, Liberal and Green MEPs.
Nicknamed the "chameleon" by opponents who claim he has no
political convictions, Mr Barroso - a former Maoist turned centre-
right politician - has struggled to shake off accusations that his
first five years lacked ambition.
He has also been criticised for pandering to the will of big EU
member states such as ...