i am pleased to have jose manuel barroso at this table. well come. >> thank you. >> rose: you've been planning to do this and we finally got to do it. >> it's a pleasure to be here with you. >> rose: tell me, when you talk to other nations, you're asian, latin america. what is your message to them about the european commission? >> just now i was in the -- in russia, and it was the first time from several years where i did not receive lectures how and should i run the european union because in fact today there's much more confidence in europe. and in fact we received praise in the duration for the efforts to come out of this crises. i think it's true that now we have no longer technically in recession. we still have problems. i will not say that we are already out of the crises because unemployment remains unacceptably high. but in fact i think we can say that we are in the right track. there are the signals of recovery are certainly encouraging. so my message is, as we have always said to you, from united states to china to japan, this is