In an unique interview with Euronews, former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso talks about Putin, Trump, Crimea and why it’s “not prudent” to alter EU treaties.
Crimea has at all times been a “particular case”, however the EU is significantly better ready now if US President-elect Donald Trump withdraws the US from Ukraine, former European Commission President Jose Manuel instructed Euronews Barroso in an interview broadcast at the moment on Radio Schuman.
The former Portuguese prime minister led the European Commission for 2 phrases between 2004 and 2014, throughout which era Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU and Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
In an interview with Euronews’ Shona Murray, Barroso made it clear that regardless of the decline of the rule of legislation in Europe, the EU mustn’t remedy political issues with institutional instruments akin to treaty adjustments.
Barroso remembers a dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin, through which he instructed him that he thought-about Ukraine an “synthetic nation” created by the CIA and the European Commission.
Guess what number of instances Barroso met Putin throughout his mandate – he tells us.
We additionally take an outline of at the moment’s vote within the European Parliament on the deforestation legislation: will MEPs change the deadline for implementation and a few elements of the content material of the laws because the centre-right proposes?
In the ultimate a part of the present we’ll have a look at which well-known nationwide dishes are susceptible to disappearing as a result of local weather change.
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