European Commission Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso (L) welcomes Director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Jacques Diouf on November 9, 2009 before their meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 week ago

European Commission Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso (L) welcomes Director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Jacques Diouf on November 9, 2009 before their meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

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  1. EU leaders pose during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Front row left to right, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Lithuania's Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Romania's President Traian Basescu, French President Nikolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
  2. EU leaders pose during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Front row left to right, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Lithuania's Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Romania's President Traian Basescu, French President Nikolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
  3. EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, poses next to a Greenpeace installation, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  4. Spanish farmer Fernando Jose Llobell Bisbal, left, talks with EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  5. A Thai farmer hands over a petition to EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, right, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  6. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (L) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (2ndL), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (C), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  7. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (c) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (L), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (2ndL), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  8. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (c) holds the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Polish President Donald Tusk (L), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (2ndL), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR), President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  9. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (c) signs the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (C) and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  10. Polish President Lech Kaczynski (c) signs the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, President of European Parliament Jerzy Buzek (C) and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (R) stand behind at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout.
  11. Poland's President Lech Kaczynski signs the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L), European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek (C) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) look on at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009.
  12. Poland's President Lech Kaczynski (L) shows signed document of EU's Lisbon Treaty as Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk (2nd L), Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (C), European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (2nd R) and European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek look on during signing ceremony at the presidential palace in October 10, 2009. Kaczynski signed the EU's reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.
  13. Poland's President Lech Kaczynski signs the EU's Lisbon Treaty as Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L), European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek (C) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) look on at the presidential palace in Warsaw October 10, 2009. Kaczynski signed the EU's reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.
  14. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, shakes hands with China's vice President Xi Jinping, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.
  15. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, shakes hands with China's vice President Xi Jinping, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.
  16. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso addresses the media on the outcome of the Irish Referendum at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso hails the Irish 'yes' vote to the EU reform treaty as "resounding" vote of confidence in the European Union.

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