José Manuel Barroso

José Manuel Barroso       ( deep state actor)
Born	José Manuel Durão Barroso 23 March 1956  Porto,  Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Alma mater	•  University of Lisbon •  European University Institute •  University of Geneva •  Georgetown University
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Children	•  Luís Guilherme •  Francisco
Spouse	Maria Sousa Uva
Member of	Bilderberg/Steering committee, Chatham House/Governors, Georgetown Leadership Seminar/1998, Italy–USA Foundation, The European House - Ambrosetti, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1993
Interests	Frank Carlucci
Party	Portuguese Workers' Communist Party, Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
WEF GLT 1993 Portuguese deep state actor whose political career seems to have received a significant help from the CIA. Starting as a Maoist activist at the time when the CIA's Frank Carlucci was ambassador, he - unusually if he was a genuine red activist - received scholarships to Geneva and Georgetown University. Made Prime Minister and participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, before he was placed as President of the European Commission (2004-2014), member of Bilderberg Steering committee, and in 2021 CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). He also received a well paid job as non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Member of the Trilateral Commission.  Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization/CEO In office January 2021 - Present Entire career seems to be helped by the CIA  President of the European Commission  In office 22 November 2004 - 31 October 2014 Deputy Catherine Ashton, Margot Wallström Succeeded by Jean-Claude Juncker  Prime Minister of Portugal In office 6 April 2002 - 17 July 2004 Preceded by António Guterres Succeeded by Pedro Santana Lopes  President of the Social Democratic Party In office 27 May 1999 - 29 June 2004  Portugal/Leader of the Opposition  In office 27 May 1999 - 6 April 2002  Portugal/Minister of Foreign Affairs In office 12 November 1992 - 28 October 1995  Secretary of State of External Affairs and Cooperation In office 17 August 1987 - 12 November 1992  Assistant Secretary of State of the Minister of the Internal Administration In office 6 November 1985 - 17 August 1987  Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Minister of the Internal Administration In office 6 November 1985 - 17 August 1987

José Manuel Durão Barroso is a Portuguese deep state actor with a political career apparently boosted by the CIA. Starting as a Maoist activist at the time when the CIA's Frank Carlucci was ambassador, he - unusually if he was a genuine red activist - received scholarships to Geneva and the deep state Georgetown University, and selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 1993. He became Prime Minister and participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, before he was placed as President of the European Commission (2004-2014), member of Bilderberg Steering committee, and in 2021 CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). He also received a well paid job as non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Education

Durão Barroso graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Then, benefiting from a NATO grant, he moved to Geneva where he completed a Diploma in European Studies at the European University Institute, University of Geneva, and a Master's degree in Political Science from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva.

Barroso became politically active in his late teens, during the Estado Novo government in Portugal, before the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974. In his university days, he was one of the leaders of the underground Maoist MRPP.

Professionally, Durão Barroso developed a brief academic career, teaching as an assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Later, after a brief time as part the government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva and the first candidacy for PSD leader, he stayed aat the Department of Political Science at Georgetown University in Washington DC, carrying out research work for a doctorate that he would never conclude.

He was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 1993.

Career

In December 1980, Barroso joined the right-of-centre PPD (Democratic Popular Party, later PPD/PSD-Social Democratic Party).

In 1985, under the PSD government of Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Barroso was named Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. In 1987 he became a member of the same government, elevated to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (answering to the Minister of Foreign Affairs), a post he was to hold for the next five years. In 1992, Barroso was promoted to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, until the defeat of the PSD in the 1995 general election.

In 1998 he graduated from the Georgetown Leadership Seminar.

Prime Minister

In 1999 he was elected president of the PSD, succeeding Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and thus became Leader of the Opposition. Parliamentary elections in 2002 gave the PSD enough seats to form a coalition government with the right-wing Portuguese People's Party, and Barroso subsequently became Prime Minister of Portugal on 6 April 2002.

As prime minister he reduced public expenditure. His purpose was to lower the public budget deficit to a 3% target (according to the demands of EU rules).

In March 2003, Barroso hosted U.S President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar in the Portuguese Azores. The four leaders finalised the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. Under Barroso's leadership, Portugal became part of the "coalition of the willing" for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, sending non-combat troops. On 30 January 2003, Barroso signed The letter of the eight supporting US policy on Iraq. His career received full support from the White House.

In 2002–2003, the Barroso government was looking to sell a significant stake in Galp energy as part of a broader privatization drive "to reduce the national deficit". The Carlyle Group was publicly identified as a primary suitor for a 33.34% stake in Galp. Frank Carlucci, then of the Carlyle Group, personally met with Portuguese officials, and his long-standing personal relationship with the Portuguese political elite was viewed by critics as providing Carlyle with privileged access. It was following this scandal that Barroso left his post as Portuguese head of government to be selected President of the European Commission, by simple co-option and under Anglo-American pressure.

During Barroso's term, the privatization of the state-owned aeronautical maintenance company OGMA was initiated. Carlyle was frequently cited in Portuguese media as an interested party due to Carlucci's background.

European Union

Barroso led the EU's largest-ever enlargement, where the union grew from 15 to 28 members, incorporating Bulgaria and Romania (2007) and Croatia (2013), following the 2004 expansion he inherited, something that was strongly supported by the US.

In an interview in June 2013, José Manuel Barroso described as "reactionary" France's desire to exclude the movie and music sector from the negotiations relating to the establishment of a transatlantic market.

In 2012, the Commission launched a Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT), reducing labour and environmental protections under the pretext of reducing red tape.

He accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for the EU in 2012.

Barroso was a key architect in launching the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in 2013.

Barroso tried to force through authorisation of GM crop varieties in the EU, against the will of a majority of Member States and consumers, claiming that a WTO ruling regarding EU legislation on GMOs put into question the right of the EU Member States to ban GMO.

In 2014, Barroso held a speech about his vision for global governance — which he called "a new world order" to an audience at Yale School of Management. "G-20 has become the premier framework for balance, a forum for financial regulation and supervision — issues that before [could not] be discussed globally at all, Barroso said. "However, I believe it’s not enough."

Later activites

In 2016, the Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs gave him a position as non-executive chairman. This led to a petition accusing Barroso of morally reprehensible behaviour over his decision to join the US investment bank which helping the Greek government hide the extent of its budget deficit, as well as selling sub-prime mortgages, a trigger of the 2008 global financial crisis.

In September 2020, the board of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi) appointed José Manuel Barroso as its new Chair, beginning in January 2021.

 

A Document by José Manuel Barroso

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19	open letter	14 May 2020	"COVID-19/Vaccine"	A number of deep state operatives, including 33 members of the Club de Madrid and 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world. At least 5 of the co-signatories had attended meetings of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. Reported in the Financial Times, Le Monde, News Week Español and other commercially-controlled media.

 

A Quote by José Manuel Barroso

Page	Quote	Date
Brussels Forum/2010	“In the modern world internal and external security are indivisible. So a vital aspect of improving security cooperation counterterrorism is a sharing of information. We have been working hard in the U.S. to develop effective procedures to that end and we are fully committed to this. But it is essential to take into account the particular concerns of Europe on fundamental rights and privacy that is lesson of the recent vote by the European Parliament on the so-called SWIFT agreement.”	March 2010

 

Appointments by José Manuel Barroso

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
Margot Wallström	European Commissioner for the Environment	13 September 1999	11 November 2004
Margot Wallström	Vice-President of the European Commission	22 November 2004	9 February 2010
Margot Wallström	European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy	22 November 2004	9 February 2010

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Brussels Forum/2010	“Some of us think of José Manuel Barroso as a former scholar at Georgetown University in Washington.”	Craig Kennedy German Marshall Fund	March 2010

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1994	2 June 1994	5 June 1994	Finland Helsinki	The 42nd Bilderberg, in Helsinki.
Bilderberg/2003	15 May 2003	18 May 2003	France Versailles	The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests, the earliest in the year since the 1967 Bilderberg
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/2015	11 June 2015	14 June 2015	Austria Telfs-Buchen	The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	Germany Dresden	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	US Virginia Chantilly	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bilderberg/2019	30 May 2019	2 June 2019	Switzerland Montreux	The 67th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Switzerland, the last before the COVID-19 operation that so many Bilderbergers were involved in
Bilderberg/2022	2 June 2022	5 June 2022	US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel	The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
Bilderberg/2023	18 May 2023	21 May 2023	Portugal Lisbon Pestana Palace Hotel	The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009.
Bilderberg/2024	30 May 2024	2 June 2024	Spain Madrid	The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2025	12 June 2025	15 June 2025	Sweden Stockholm	The 71st Bilderberg Meeting, the location and dates of which were announced online in 2024
Bilderberg/2026	9 April 2026	12 April 2026	US Washington DC Salamander Washington DC	The 72nd Bilderberg Meeting, the location and dates of which were reported in April 2026, just days before the event. This is a sharp contrast with the 2025 Bilderberg, which was exposed online in 2024.
Brussels Forum/2006	2006	2006	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2009	20 March 2009	22 March 2009	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2010	26 March 2010	28 March 2010	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. Over 40% of the guests have pages.
Brussels Forum/2011	25 March 2011	27 March 2011	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Munich Security Conference/2025	14 February 2025	16 February 2025	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
WEF/Annual Meeting/1994	January 1994	January 1994	Switzerland WEF	Held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1994.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2005	January 2005	January 2005	Switzerland WEF	Only 112 of the guests to this year's meeting are known of whom only 75 have pages.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008	23 January 2008	27 January 2008	Switzerland WEF	At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	Switzerland WEF	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	Switzerland WEF	2603 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Switzerland WEF	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
Yalta European Strategy/Meeting/2012	2012	2012		The 2012 Yalta European Strategy Meeting
Yalta European Strategy/Meeting/2016	15 September 2016	17 September 2016	Ukraine Kiev	Yearly junket conference in Ukraine funded by sugar daddy Victor Pinchuk.

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