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President of European Commission - Jose Manuel Barroso

President of European Commission - Jose Manuel Barroso

What can his successor expect from the job?

The Interview · BBC World Service

September 10, 201423m 20s

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Show Notes

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’s 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)