EUobserver reports that European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has thrown his weight behind the idea of preserving the one country, one commissioner principle. This has been suggested as a key pre-condition for Ireland to rerun a referendum on the failed Lisbon Treaty.

John Redwood doles out some richly deserved praise to Angela Merkel and her government for declining to join the mad fashion for the fiscal stimulus funded by more of the borrowing which got us into this mess. She is not attending talks in London today with Gordon Brown, featuring President Sarkozy and Jose Manuel Barroso, the EU Commission President. They will meet business leaders and discuss wa...

Nicolas Sarkozy and Jose Manuel Barroso are to meet Gordon Brown at Downing Street for talks on the global economy.

Her denial came after Shadow Chancellor George Osborne accused Labour "euro-fanatics" of preparing to soften up the country to join the euro by seizing on current economic difficulties for political ends and an admission by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson that adopting the EU single currency was the "right long-term policy objective". European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso had already...

The press this week has been full of stories about Britain considering joining the Euro in an attempt to beat the effects of the global economic crisis. The latest debate was prompted by the President of the Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, announcing on French radio that Britain was closer than ever before to signing up to the single currency. Although I find this very worrying I sadly do not fin...

We all know how arrogant the European Union is and how little regard it has for the views of the ordinary citizens that make up the Nation States it seeks to control. So it was no BIG surprise to read that the European Commission president said the UK was 'closer than ever before' to signing up to the single currency.  Jose Manuel Barroso said he had held private conversations with ...

Here on Airstrip One the government seems to be trying to bounce us in to yet another catastrophic threat to our independence and freedom. It seems the Snot Gobbler has being having secret discussions about forcing us into the Euro too. Jose Manuel Barroso has said that he is in discussion with “people who count” about Britain joining the Euro. Errr… That would be US then Jose – the Britis...

According to BBC News, EU President Jose Manuel Barroso claims that Britain is "closer than ever before" to joining the Euro; that top politicians are considering the move because of the effects of the global credit crunch. I ‘m sure what Mr Baroso claims is true, after all the governments new super hero, Lord Mandelson of Foy, said at the weekend that "our aim" should be to join the euro. I

Who knows what Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and Peter Mandelson were thinking when he decided to take up lobbying for Britain to join the Euro again. As well as being politically insane, it would be economically...

Speaking on a French radio show, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has claimed that the UK is "closer than ever before" to joining the euro and said that “some British politicians have already told me, 'If we had the euro, we would have been better off'”, the BBC reports.