Meanwhile green group co-leader, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, described Mr Barroso as the "absent president of Europe".
Mr Cohn-Bendit is an old pro, a compelling orator and a brilliant manipulator of the media.
So he hopes the irrepressible Mr Cohn-Bendit, by launching the Greens' campaign so early, will burn himself out.
Green co-leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit said her position would lead to a "big crisis" between the Parliament and the Council.
But Mr Cohn-Bendit, though still a maverick, is not just a media-loving clown.
The Franco-German co-leader of the Greens, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, told Mr Orban that many Hungarians, including Jews and other minorities, were afraid because of Fidesz policies.
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".
French green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit accused the EU of being "scared" of challenging the regime of the ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, during a debate on 17 January 2011.
It is led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a Franco-German figure from May 1968 who is now more a bourgeois eco-romantic than a hardened rebel, and Eva Joly, a Franco-Swedish retired magistrate.
Green lawmaker Daniel Cohn-Bendit said a sustainable economic recovery for the east Mediterranean island nation can only be achieved through closer ties with the region's biggest and most dynamic economy, Turkey.
Meanwhile, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the co-leader of the Green group, criticised the centralisation of power in Germany and France and argued that there was a "fundamental democratic problem" with delegating important decisions to the European central bank.
One of the oddest sights of the hearings was that of Daniel Cohn-Bendit, in 1968 a student rebel, now the leader of France's European Greens, casually dressed in an open-necked shirt and thumping his desk in approval when Mr Patten, besuited ex-chairman of the British Conservative Party, declared himself a crusader for human rights.
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