The current president of the European Commission has five bodyguards from his native Portugal because the executive's own security services were deemed not up to the job.
José Manuel Barroso is the first president to resort to this extraordinary protection from national body guards.
The presence of the five Portuguese bodyguards, from the country's public security police (PSP), was revealed in Belgian daily La Libre Belgique on Wednesday (18 May) and subsequently confirmed by a Co...
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