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‘A huge European superstate is the only solution to the economic crisis engulfing the continent, the President of the European Commission declared today.

Jose Manuel Barroso claimed the fate of the euro and European Union were intertwined and that the only answer to the growing threat of collapse was a massive Federal Europe.

As the crisis in Greece deepened Mr Barroso told the European Parliament: “We are confronted with the most serious challenge of a generation. “What we need now is a new, unifying impulse, a new federalist moment – let’s not be afraid to use the word.’