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All in a day's work: Barroso says he made the EU 'united, open and stronger' (Photo: epp.eu)

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Barroso defends his EU legacy, criticises 'anti-foreigner' eurosceptics

With two weeks to go until he is formally out of office and, as of yet, with no fixed onward job, Jose Manuel Barroso is a politician concerned with his legacy.

Having spent 10 years as the European Commission president, taking over just after the EU made its continent-changing expansion to the East and ending as it limps out of an equally transformative economic crisis, the 58-year old Portuguese is keen to put his stamp on a narrative that has cast him as lacking vision, weakening his...

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All in a day's work: Barroso says he made the EU 'united, open and stronger' (Photo: epp.eu)

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