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Mr Barroso. The EU parliament is becoming conscious of its weightier role in the EU's institutional set-up (Photo: Portuguese EU presidency 2007)

Barroso: Europe needs to reinvent itself

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.

Much of the paper focuses on the current economic crisis, with the commi...

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Mr Barroso. The EU parliament is becoming conscious of its weightier role in the EU's institutional set-up (Photo: Portuguese EU presidency 2007)

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