Europe Weekly: Barroso calls for federation The EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has called for a federation of nation states. Just minutes after he said that Germany's top court rubber stamped the eurozone's new permanent bailout fund, aimed at protecting bloc's crippled economies. All that in this week's Europe Weekly, plus the EU's latest banking union plans. To see the full programme, click on the video link above. More about: Debt crisis, EU Commission, European Union, Eurozone, José Manuel Barroso