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EU Commissioner Margaritis Schinas on Friday hailed the bloc's new rules for handling irregular arrivals of asylum seekers and migrants.

"For the first time, the European Union has a migration policy," Schinas said at the Delphi Economic Forum during a discussion with former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, moderated by Kathimerini journalist Xenia Kounalaki.

''Brexit negotiations are on course to fail unless both Britain and the European Union ditch their winner-takes-all approach to the coming talks'', the former president of the European commission José Manuel Barroso has said.

Barroso also suggested that extremists on both sides of the Channel wanted the UK to break away from the EU entirely.

The anti-corruption non-governmental organisation Transparency International has called for stricter ethical rules in the European Parliament.

170 European deputies from the previous mandate until 2014 have found jobs in the private sector and nearly 1/3 work at lobbyist firms in Brussels, showed a report of the organisation published in Brussels on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - An ethics investigation has been started by EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker into his predecessor, Jose Manuel Barroso, on whether he broke the rules by taking a job at Goldman Sachs.

Former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso believes the Greek government has undermined its effort to secure a better deal from lenders by making «completely unrealistic demands,» such as debt forgiveness, and making mistakes that were due to a "lack of experience or ideological reasons."

"Serbia belongs in EU," says former EC chief

BELGRADE -- Serbia "should be in the EU and the reforms introduced by the government of PM Aleksandar Vucic are in the interest of the citizens, with or without the EU."

This is according to former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

BELGRADE - Serbia should be in the European Union and the reforms introduced by the government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic are in the interest of the citizens, with or without the EU, former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said.

Looking back on his 10 years at the European Commission, the outgoing President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday that preventing Greece leaving the eurozone had been one of the most significant moments during his time in office.

Turkey’s EU accession bid has not progressed properly, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said during an address to Chatham House

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso argued Monday that Britain is better in the European Union and warned that alienating its allies would be a "historic mistake", as pressure mounts from British eurosceptics before elections.