EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has said Europe needs to reinvent itself with a "transformational agenda" or the 27-nation club risks sliding "towards irrelevance." Mr Barroso made the comments Thursday (3 September) in a 41-page policy document laying out plans for the EU's near future and designed to woo members of the European Parliament into backing him for a second five-year term in office. The parliament is conscious of its weightier role in the EU's institutional set-up Much of the paper focuses on the current economic crisis, with the commission having been strongly criticised in the past for acting too late and too timidly. In the document, Mr Barroso pledges to push for greater economic policy co-ordination and increase commission surveillance of public finances as well as push for stricter financial regulation and bring banks back to good health.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has said Europe needs to reinvent itself with a "transformational agenda" or the 27-nation club risks sliding "towards irrelevance."
Mr Barroso made the comments Thursday (3 September) in a 41-page policy document laying out plans for the EU's near future and designed to woo members of the European Parliament into backing him for a second five-year term in office.
The parliament is conscious of its weightier role in the EU's institutional set-up
Much of the paper focuses on the current economic crisis, with the commission having been strongly criticised in the past for acting too late and too timidly.
In the document, Mr Barroso pledges to push for greater economic policy co-ordination and increase commission surveillance of public finances as well as push for stricter financial regulation and bring banks back to good health.
Europe needs to reinvent itself with a "transformational agenda"
That's a new candidate's line, hardly one for an incumbent seeking re-appointment.
irrelevance
A thousand times we've heard this globalising-Anglo-neolib-speak. What does Barroso think he has to gain by using it now?
The document is here. Anyone?
Just cos you know heroin is bad for you doesn't stop a junkie responding to it, loving it. The media aren't even that aware of how utterly co-opted they are. keep to the Fen Causeway
