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...Richard Ashton held the same role at Home Retail Group for 15 years until its takeover by Sainsburys, when the company owned Argos, Homebase and Habitat....
...– Michael Sherwood and Richard Gnodde, co-CEOs of Goldman Sachs International, on the appointment of Mr Barroso (also a former prime minister of Portugal) as GSI’s non-executive chairman....
...Mr Barroso says he does not rule out simultaneous developments: some countries moving towards closer integration while a handful of threads on the periphery get pulled out of the sweater entirely....
...Enduring partnerships with Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner and Mel Brooks show Wilder’s gift wasn’t just his own mastery, but an ability to coax it from others, too....
...Jose Barroso, the EU president, warned Russian president Vladimir Putin that the EU may retaliate against measures from the Kremlin that target EU food and agricultural exports....
...The about-turn follows a change in the political climate in Brussels, which close observers of the case said made it hard for Mr Almunia and José Manuel Barroso, outgoing Commission president, to win broad...
...However, José Manuel Barroso, outgoing European Commission president, came under intense pressure from Germany and France to reject the deal, which requires a vote from the full commission to become binding...
...Barroso visits Kiev Russia’s foreign policy will be on the agenda when the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, visits Kiev for talks on Ukraine with President Petro Poroshenko (to...
...EU prime ministers and presidents will nominate the successor to José Manuel Barroso as commission president, but the candidate will be formally elected by the European Parliament, where support for Mr Juncker...
...Italy’s former foreign minister Franco Frattini, EU commission president José Manuel Barroso, Belgian defence minister Pieter De Crem and the UK’s former minister of defence Liam Fox were all also connected...
...The problem is that if, as is possible, Socialists are the biggest party in the European Parliament after May’s elections, they will demand that one of their own succeeds José Manuel Barroso as Commission...
...The EU package, which is to be presented by José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, ahead of an emergency summit of EU leaders on Thursday, will also include close to €8bn in project financing...
...This was a tight spot for Mr Barroso....
...In a speech to be delivered on Friday in London, José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, will insist free movement of people within the EU remains a core value – but will agree abuse must...
...“Not long ago, many people were talking about the euro area breaking up,” José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, said after Latvian membership was approved in June....
...While it has been somewhat politically marginalised under José Manuel Barroso, its current president, the commission remains the key European institution, operating as the civil service for the EU, regulator...
...“[It] will only strengthen investor uncertainty and reduce the attractiveness of the eurozone, well beyond the financial sector,” they wrote to José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and Herman...
...Additional reporting by Richard Milne and Jan Cienski...
...In 2006, he spoke of Scotland joining an “arc of prosperity”, which included Iceland and Ireland, writes Richard Milne....
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Size does matter in the modern world / From Prof Richard Rosecrance...
...But the furious criticism this week of José Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, who branded the French left as “reactionary” for opposing trade liberalisation, exposed deep-seated resentment...
...In speeches dominated by references to the past, José Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, made the one concrete comment about today calling the situation in Syria “a stain on the world’s conscience...
...Speaking to a small group of reporters in the European Commission’s Brussels headquarters just after getting a congratulatory call from Ban-Ki Moon, the UN secretary-general, José Manuel Barroso, the commission...
...Mr Obama and his advisers met on Monday with Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, and Catherine Ashton, the region’s chief foreign policy...
...Additional reporting by Richard Milne in London...
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