Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-07-22-Speech-4-030"
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"Madam President, the reasons why we shall be voting against the candidature of Mr Barroso are very simple.
We find ourselves in a rather paradoxical situation. We have just had elections in which practically all the governments were defeated, not because the citizens did not understand or were not informed, but because there was mass protest at decisions such as those on the war, some of which Europe made itself and some of which it did not oppose. What we have here is a protest at liberalist policies, deep social malaise and a social, economic and environmental crisis, all due to the failure of these liberalist policies, starting with the Stability Pact and the privatisations.
A certain approach to European integration is in crisis, and rhetoric is not enough to resolve this crisis. In view of this, there is swing to the right, to conservatism, and an attempt to propose a philosophy of compromise in the name of so-called governability, which means taking a position between bureaucracy and governments without facing up to the problems.
We, however, take the opposite view, that Europe needs a change inspired by the movements demanding rejection of the war, social policies, democracy and citizenship through residence. Frankly, these are all things that Mr Barroso does not represent."@en1
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