Brussels, 01/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Liberal group at the European Parliament are planning on postponing the vote at the European Parliament on the approval of José Manuel Durao Barroso as president of the European Commission, asserted a press statement from Graham Watson. "We need more time to get to know the candidate, who is still relatively unknown in European Union circles" he said, adding that the ELDR group would invite the president elect, "at the first possible opportunity to discuss his goats and ambitions and his vision for the new enlarged European Union" EUROPE yesterday p 8 on reservations from the Socialist group). Independent of the merits of the president elect, the Liberal Democrat group consider that heads of state and governments have not managed this affair in a way that is entirely satisfactory, commented the British Liberal Democrat, "Excellent candidacies were sacrificed for national egos. This kind of horse-trading is exactly the kind of thing that Europeans do not trust".