Jose Manuel Barroso was president of the European Commission (the central governing apparatus of the European Union) for a decade. His central mission was expansion and centralization of the EU.
“More integration is simply indispensable for our economy,” Barroso said. He doubled the membership size.
Barroso saw Britain’s exit from the EU, the “Brexit,” as a horrible idea. “It will not be wise for Britain to now make a jump in the dark,” Barroso said. “It is quite obvious from my point of view that we are stronger if we are together.”
Today Goldman Sachs, the New York-based global investment bank, announced: “the appointment of José Manuel Barroso as non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International (GSI). He will also be an advisor to Goldman Sachs.”
It’s not a mystery, is it, why the fishermen of Hastings or Wales may not have believed that Barroso’s interests were aligned with theirs?
Timothy P. Carney, The Washington Examiner’s senior political columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears Tuesday and Thursday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.
