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President of European Commission - Jose Manuel Barroso

Jose Manuel Barroso has been president of the European Commission for ten years, but has only two months left on the job. What can his successor expect?

The European Union confronts a host of problems from an economic slowdown inside the Eurozone to the crisis in Ukraine. Jose Manuel Barroso has been president of the European Commission for ten years, but has only two months left in the job. Hardtalk鈥檚 Zeinab Badawi talks to him by Lake Como in Italy and asks, how much of a mess is he leaving behind for his successor?

(Photo: Jose Manuel Barroso. Credit: Getty Images)

23 minutes

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Wed 10 Sep 2014 19:05GMT

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