Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso accepted an invitation to stand for the post of the European Commission head. "I am going to accept the invitation as it was presented to me by the heads of European states and governments to become a candidate for president of the European Commission," Barroso said in a brief broadcast to the Portuguese nation. He pledged to make the EU "stronger, even more cohesive and just, and more intervening on the international scene". Barroso's nomination came as a compromise choice after a two-week wrangle that opposed supporters and opponents of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and of the federalist and nation-state visions of Europe against each other.

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