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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9900
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/elections

Guy Verhofstadt criticises Barroso Commission and proposes common EU crisis-busting strategy

Brussels, 12/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The former Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, who is top of the Flemish Liberals list (VLD) in the June European elections, says that if Europe is lacking a common strategy for tackling the financial and economic crisis, it is mainly the fault of José Manuel Barroso's European Commission, which remains “silent” and refuses to put forward the necessary proposals. Mr Verhofstadt informed the press on Tuesday that it is the Commission's...

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