Brussels, 03/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is convinced that the European Union, or at least the eurozone, will be unable to overcome the sovereign debt crisis that has shaken it since 2010 without there being institutional reform. “We are experiencing a situation in which we need greater unity and coherence between our policies, as well as greater legislative harmonisation. And, to achieve all this, we need greater institutional integration”, he said on Saturday 1 September speaking in The Hague during a seminar on “Global Constitutionalism” organised by the University of Yale. Barroso went on to say: “The present crisis has shown the limits of individual action by nation states. Europe and the principles of the Treaty need to be renewed. We need more integration, and the corollary of more integration has to be more democracy. This European renewal must represent a leap in quality and enable Europe to rise to the challenges of the world today by giving it the tools it needs to react more effectively and to shape and control the future”. (MB/transl.jl)