Barroso Must be Stopped, Says Cohn-Bendit

As European Union heads of state and government, including Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, arrive in Brussels for today’s June 2009 EU Summit, they are facing pressure from opposition groups in the European parliament, led by Greens/EFA co-president Daniel Cohn-Bendit, not to grant another five-year term as Commission President to Jose Manuel Barroso.

Agt a press conference, Cohn-Bendit explains why he feels Barroso should not be given a new term