"The message is that the European Union is something very precious, " Mr Barroso said.
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Today President Barroso said "there is no magic bullet... (a solution) will take time and sustained efforts".
However, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday that he believed the worst was over.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he would have preferred a budget closer to the Commission's original proposals.
Mr Barroso said the EU decision to recapitalise Spanish banks last weekend showed the EU's "ability to react quickly".
Speaking ahead of today's summit, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said politicians are on the right track.
President Barroso said the EU needed to meet the challenges "head on", without various national government trying to go their own way.
However, EC President Jose Manuel Barroso said any newly independent state would have to reapply for European membership "according to the rules".
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the body would have preferred an outcome closer to the original proposal it put forward.
European Commission President Manuel Barroso said the idea of withdrawing voting rights was "unacceptable" and would never be accepted by all 27 EU governments.
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said the talks had failed owing to "important differences of opinion - especially in overall size of the budget".
"Russia was not informed also because the governments of Europe were not informed -- let's be completely open and honest about that issue, " Mr Barroso said.
Mr Barroso said he had received a letter from Mr Orban on Wednesday in which "he has indicated to me his intention to modify the relevant legislation".
Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit accused the Commission of giving in to "populist pressure and racism", however Commission president Barroso said border controls should be an "absolute last resort".
Mr Barroso said the answer was more integration, more Europe.
However, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the amendments raised "concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards".
Mr Barroso said the turning point was last September's promise from the European Central Bank to buy unlimited amounts of eurozone states' debts, which has helped crisis hit countries borrow more cheaply.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Barroso said that in awarding the prize to the EU, the Nobel Committee was saying that the European project should be cherished, both within and beyond Europe.
As MEPs debated the conclusions of the European Council summit on 13 December 2011, Mr Barroso said it was "unfortunate" that Prime Minister David Cameron did not agree to the treaty proposed at the summit.
From Brussels, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a congratulatory note that Napolitano will serve at a time when EU nations must "display great calmness, courage and farsightedness" amid calls from Europe's citizens for restored growth and jobs.
Reacting to the vote on Monday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the adopted amendments "raise concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards" and the Commission would "make a detailed assessment" and act accordingly.
Mr Barroso has said that the EU's competitiveness will be his top priority.
The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, said the new capital requirements would enable banks to "absorb future shocks themselves, without asking the taxpayer for help".
In a letter to Mr Sarkozy and Mr Berlusconi the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, said "the temporary restoration of borders is one of the possibilities, provided this is subject to specific and clearly defined criteria".
"We are in an election campaign so there are a lot of fake things said that candidates wouldn't say if they were in power, " said Antonio Barroso, analyst at political research firm Eurasia.
In a written response to Mr Barroso's telephone call, Mr Orban said that Hungary was "fully committed" to European standards.
"These amendments raise concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards, " a statement by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said.
Because, as I said yesterday during my meeting with Presidents Van Rompuy and Barroso, we have a very deep interest here in the United States in making sure that that process is resolved, so that we can continue to grow our economy and put people back to work here at home.
The president said he told Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Scheussel and President Jose Manuel Barroso of the European Commission that the United States would like to send the detainees home.
Mr Anastasiades said he had spoken to EU Economy and Euro Commissioner Olli Rehn and said he would also be writing to European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and to EU President Herman Van Rompuy.
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