José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ mɐˈnwɛl duˈɾɐ̃w bɐˈʁozu]; born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He previously served as the 114th prime minister of Portugal and from 2004–2014 as the 11th president of the European Commission.[2]
For the Portuguese footballer, see José Barroso (footballer). For the Portuguese modern pentathlete, see Manuel Barroso.
José Manuel Barroso
Lisbon
Social Democratic Party (1980–present)
Workers' Communist Party (1974–1977)[1]
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He has been one of the revolving door cases at the EU, which received the most media attention because only two months after the cooling off period, Barroso accepted a position as "senior adviser " and "non-executive chairman" of Goldman Sachs International.[3] and became subject of an ethics inquiry.
Personal life[edit]
In 1980 he married Maria Margarida Pinto Ribeiro de Sousa Uva, with whom he has three sons. Sousa Uva died from uterine cancer in August 2016, at the age of 60.
Apart from Portuguese, Barroso is fluent in French,[55] speaks Spanish and English and has taken a course to acquire a basic knowledge of German.[56]
