Joseph Daul: “Barroso je t’aime”

Joseph Daul, President of the EPP group in the European parliament announces that Jose Manuel Barroso will get his endorsement in Wednesday vote on his reappointment as president of the European execuive, the commission. Translation from French: Mr Barroso is the first candidate for the presidency of the European Commission to have enabled the European parliament to play such a high profile and active role when it comes to certain policy. He has constantly promoted effective partnership between our two institutions, by a series of very practical pragmatic measures. This I believe represents an enormous step towards a European parliamentarianism, and we as members of parliament should assume this chance. Therefore my group wants president Barroso to build up a new commission and that he restarts working