Another term for the proponents of EU enlargement

The European Parliament voted yesterday selection of Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, in another five-year term. Analysts assess that the reelection Barroso, who strongly supports EU enlargement good for the Western Balkan countries expect that the continuity of its previous policy.

"President Barroso strongly supports EU enlargement, especially when it comes to countries where it is promised, such as Turkey and Western Balkan countries. His re-election, we could expect the continuation of such policies, which is generally the policy of the European Commission, told the Deutsche Welle Amanda Akčakoča from the Center for European Policy in Brussels.
Barroso recently said that the EU must respect the promise given to the candidate countries that wish to become EU members. The guidelines for the European Commission in the next five years on it is explained by the fact that the entry of new members into the European Union "significantly strengthen the Union, as well as the defense of peace and stability of the European continent."
At a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, of 736 deputies, 382 of them voted for the 53-year-old leader of the center-right, while 219 deputies against and 117 restraint.
Barroso was the only candidate, but accepted by 27 EU member states, and his appointment to the position of President of the Commission was virtually guaranteed, because his allies from the center-right are the main force in Parliament.
Addressing the deputies, Barroso promised that "his party will be Europe." "With all those who want to board this exciting journey, which is called the construction of unified Europe, I want to build the necessary consensus to strengthen the European project," he said.
The fight against the economic crisis and its consequences, as well as climate protection and strengthening of the EU, some of the main items Barozovog five-year political program. He now expects the task of forming a team of more 26 commissioner, who will take office 1st January. However, their appointment can not begin until Irci not say its decision on the Lisbon Treaty, 2 October on the second referendum, the document key to the future of the EU.
Swedish EU presidency said that the choice of Barroso's European twenty-seven to give "the necessary stability in the class with the great challenges confronting the economic crisis and climate change."
Barroso is the first president of the Commission who got a second term after Jacques Delors, who led the integration of the EU since 1985. until 1994. Former Prime Minister of Portugal won the very start of the largest support group in the EP, a coalition of the European People's Party, which ideologically and I belong to. On the other hand, the Socialists and Greens have criticized him because, as considered, inefficiency, and deference to European leaders and support market liberalism, which has contributed to the financial crisis. Required and postponing the vote on the Chairman of the ratification of the Lisbon Agreement, and wanted and worthy opponent. Barroso has tried to approach the British, who want the EU to be an important guardian and protector of the free market. Political Dictionary, which was intended evroskeptičnim Tories insisted that without the Union, even without the Commission, according to which deeply distrust the government, there would be no single market in which British and European prosperity built over the past 20 years.



Barroso selects new team

Candidates for EU foreign minister
Olli Rehn, EU commissioner
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Minister of Foreign Affairs
Chris Patten, the British Tory and former Governor Honkonga
Franco Frattini, the head of Italian diplomacy
Candidates for president of the EU's future
Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister
Wolfgang Schüssel, former Austrian Chancellor
Gi Verhofštat, former Belgian Prime Minister
Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
François Fillon, French Prime Minister
Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg Prime Minister

He started as a leftist
Former Prime Minister of Portugal in politics has entered 1973rd as a leftist revolutionary and friendly student who fought against dictatorship ultrakonzervativne "in his country. "Books that we wanted to read, and songs such as 'Je t'aime', were forbidden," he recalls those days. Nowadays, though firmly positioned on the European center-right, Barroso, due to its past, but tends to liberalism.