STRASBOURG, France (AP) - Overcoming opposition from leftists angered by his support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the new president-elect of the European Union's top office said Thursday he would move quickly to assert power in Brussels and mend ties with Washington.
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Barroso was elected president of the European Commission on Thursday by a European Parliament vote of 413 to 251, with 44 abstentions.
"I am a European and proud to be such," Barroso told the parliament before the vote. "I will defend the general interest of Europe." He added, however, that it was in Europe's "interests to work together (with the United States) on the matter of Iraq."
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