Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has appealed to British prime minister Tony Blair to show leadership in Europe during the UK presidency.
Rows like the one with French President Jacques Chirac could destroy "the very idea of Europe", he said in an interview with the Guardian on Friday (1 July).
"The nationalist rhetoric is self-defeating. It is impossible, it is irrational to come to Brussels and to go back to respective capitals saying every time 'we have won', as if it ...
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