
The European Union needs to “do more and faster” to project its influence against an increasingly dominant China, former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has told Euronews.
“Europe should not be a kind of geopolitical teenager. We have to become adults responsible for our own future,” Barroso, who helmed the EU executive between 2004 and 2014, said in an interview ahead of the EU-China summit taking place on Thursday in Beijing.