Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-07-22-Speech-4-016"
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"Mr President, over the next five years, the European Union needs to strengthen its institutional and democratic functions. It needs to implement an efficient development policy which targets full employment and it needs to guarantee social rights and regional and social cohesion. It also needs to be able to speak to the world with one, strong voice as a force of peace and cooperation.
Mr Barroso, you are the President-designate of the European Commission, but the policy which you exercised as prime minister and your statements yesterday before the European Parliament do not convince us that you can respond to these priorities. When you visited the Group of the Party of European Socialists yesterday, you told us that you are not a technocrat; you are a politician who makes political choices. We today are making a political judgment of the economic policy of your government, which led to a dramatic drop in development and social spending and to unfortunate economic results in your country. We are making a political judgment of your stand on the war in Iraq, your identification with the choices made by the United States and the famous meeting in the Azores. We are making a political judgment of your choice to support a war without a United Nations resolution, causing a schism within the European Union. We are also making a political judgment of the lack of self-criticism in your speech today, now that it has been clearly demonstrated that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The question that I should like to put to you, as President-designate, is this: how do you believe you will respond to these major priorities of the European Union through vague proclamations when your policy, all these years, has constantly served different perceptions? We believe that the vote for the nomination of the President of the European Commission is a political vote; it is a vote which relates to the European priorities we are setting for coming years. That is why we are not persuaded by your political pronouncements and we are against your nomination."@en1
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