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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9490

30 August 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/commission
José Manuel Barroso denies accusations of illegal funding of his party in a letter to Hans-Gert Pöttering

Brussels, 29/08/2007 (Agence Europe) - The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, wrote to his European Parliament counterpart Hans-Gert Pöttering on Tuesday, further to press revelations claiming that the Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD), of which he was a leader in 2001, allegedly broke the law on party funding. Mr Barroso explained that this was a strictly national affair which dates back to a time before the current Commission was in place.

“Obviously,...

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