Growing extremism across Europe requires political parties in favor of deeper European Union integration to make their case more vigorously in a bid to avoid EU election losses, the head of the bloc’s executive arm said.
A legislative vote in May risks becoming “a festival of unfounded reproaches against Europe” unless mainstream parties deploy “rational arguments and passion,” European Commission President Jose Barroso told the European Parliament today in Strasbourg, France. The May 22-25 elections to the 28-nation assembly, which has a say over EU laws covering everything from financial services to farming, could be “tense,” he said.
