Brussels, 20/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Commission is “an independent institution” and Commissioner Mandelson shows proof of “enormous competence”. This was José Manuel Barroso's immediate response, on Friday 20 June after the European Council, to the criticism voiced by Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy. The Italian prime minister and the French president, each separately but with the same insistence, had criticised the action of European commissioners. Speaking to the press...