Austerity in the EU

The future for Europe is bright despite 10-year rollercoaster rise, says José Manuel Barroso

The abolition of the "double Irish" is a highlight of the 10-year tenure of European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, who said he would put it in his legacy speech. He is due to leave office in two weeks’ time.

A Russian official has complained that EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso breached confidentiality when he quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying that Moscow could take over Kiev in two weeks if it wished.

Vladimir Putin has been warned that he is “practically in a state of war with Europe” as EU leaders mull tougher sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

The next generation of medical vaccines, hydrogen-powered vehicles, quieter aircraft and cheaper railways are among the research projects the EU plans to fund.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

THERE are some things you can say for sure about Enda Kenny. He is a survivor, as tough as nails and not nearly as happy-go-lucky as he wants you to think. Part-actor, part-chameleon, part-huckster and dealer, and if we are lucky part-prodigy as well.

Admissions about the crisis cock-up are all very well but what have we learned, asks Kyran Fitzgerald.

The tense political and military stand-off in Ukraine dominated a meeting of Europe’s centre-right parties in Dublin.

Ireland has turned the corner on the economic crisis and is playing a key role in EU-wide recovery, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso declared last night.

The President of the European Commission has received an honorary doctorate from UCC.

The image of the European Commission as pushing austerity and creating difficulties for Ireland is wrong, the Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso will say today when he is awarded a honorary degree by University College Cork.

I agree with Phil Prendergast, MEP, regarding the conferring of an honorary doctorate on Jose Manuel Barroso by UCC.

Jose Emmanuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, in a recent reference to Ukraine, has spoken enthusiastically of “European values” for that country. But what exactly are these values?

MEPs move to shut down Strasbourg seat

One of the world’s most powerful men will deliver a keynote address to the people of Ireland when he visits Cork next week.

The European Union has threatened sanctions against Ukraine following deadly violence between riot police and protesters in Kiev in which at least 25 people died and 241 were injured.

As the vote on Scottish independence moves closer — it’s set for September — the dizzying manifestos proposed in the wine bars off Edinburgh’s beautiful Princes Street, or along the glens and river banks of stately Perthshire, can expect ever more rigorous scrutiny.

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday that it would be “difficult, if not impossible” for an independent Scotland to join the European Union.

The president of the EU commission has suggested there may be scope for Britain to adjust its relationship with the union, but Jose Manuel Barroso flatly rejected the prospect of a cap on migration from member states.

Flying into a storm at Belgian airports

World falls heavy on Barroso’s shoulders

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has admitted that the Jun 2014 deadline for a deal on the recapitalisation of the banks will be missed, but insisted a legacy bank agreement is still be on the table.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso incorrectly claims the euro currency was a “victim” of the problems caused by Ireland.

Aren’t we so lucky to have men with the stature of José Manuel Barroso at the helm in Europe? With outstanding logic he explains that if any European bank ‘causes a problem for Europe’ in future, Irish banks will have to take their share of the losses.

SOME people don’t react well when they’re not invited to a party. Just before Christmas, the European Commission president, Juan Manuel Barroso, a former communist from Portugal, kicked the people he held responsible for Ireland’s economic problems — the Irish.

The poor state of EU-Irish relations burst into the open with Commission president José Manuel Barroso’s ‘moment of truth’ in the midst of the EU summit.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny moved to mend bridges with the European Commission as work is due to begin in the next few weeks on details of how the EU can directly recapitalise banks.

The head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has dashed any hopes of retrospective funding for Ireland's banks.

Ireland will continue to fight European finance chiefs for a deal on its legacy bank debt, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan was honoured today by the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce with an award for achieving the bailout exit.

The head of the European Commission has congratulated Germany on its role in Ireland's bailout.

The EU is to investigate Germany’s economic policies, including its massive export surplus, with Berlin warned that it had better co-operate or risk undermining the credibility of the economic oversight it fought so hard to impose.

The EU is under fire for being too pro-business, with a study showing advisory groups are heavy with representatives of corporations.

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is seeking to break a deadlock in trade talks with the EU by stepping up his part in negotiations, people familiar with the strategy said.

Another change on cards for Childers

EU officials yesterday warned Italy not to let politics ruin recovery prospects and upset debt markets in a week that could signal the end of Erico Letta’s fragile five-month-old government.

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso declared yesterday that economic recovery was within sight after nearly four years of Europe’s debt crisis and urged governments to move faster to complete a stalled banking union.

The euro-sceptic UK Independence Party could become “the first force” in next year’s European elections, the President of the European Commission said today.

THE life of a Hollywood A-lister isn’t all glitz and glamour.

A tentative deal has been reached on a seven-year, €960bn budget that will come into effect next year, the European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said today.