Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-15-Speech-3-123"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Votes2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.9.3-123"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-1242
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie-Noëlle Lienemann2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2001-03-27)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2001-03-27)3 vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2001-03-27)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-03-27)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2001-03-27)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2000-03-07)3
lpv:translated text	"The vote on the ratification of the Commission is not a vote of approval for the Commission’s programme, since Parliament will be consulted on this at the end of the year. What we have to do today is to assess whether the Commissioners-designate are up to the task of fulfilling their assignments competently and with due seriousness. There is nothing in what we have learnt during the Commissioners’ hearings to justify, at this stage, a veto on any one of them in particular. Let us say that they can enjoy the benefit of the doubt at this early stage. The fact remains that, in his speech to the European Parliament, Romano Prodi made statements which can only disappoint and worry those who are waiting for rapid and bold responses from the European Union in order to re-align Europe to be at the service of people and humanity rather than of finance and of the great God, money, for Europe to put itself forward as an alternative to world-wide liberalisation. Mr Prodi’s silence on the subject of the need to defend the European Social Model, his irritating reticence, his frequent omissions on the subject of a European policy to promote employment and his tentative generalities on institutional change, give us rather more than reservations. This is why in the vote on the nomination of Mr Prodi, I voted against. In anticipation of the essential reorientation of the political paths of the Commission and of the debate on the action to be taken, a vote in favour today must be interpreted as a choice not to multiply crises, blockages, in our institutions, and as a refusal to look for individual scapegoats when it is the orientation of Europe in terms of politics and civilisation which is in question. This vote is, to some extent, purely administrative. My vote is not therefore a challenge to the Commissioners-designate. Nor is it a vote of confidence. I expect the new Commission to earn this confidence. The Commission must be aware that there are many of us who will not hesitate to penalise it if its actions should prove to be as disappointing as its current political performance."@en1

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