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"Madam President, Mr President-designate of the Commission, the policies you have pursued in Portugal have startled many of us. There are various reasons for that; from the Iraq war to the collapse of the social security system. Now, however, you have stated here that you are committed to a very different kind of policy, and it is as a result of this that there is a credibility problem.
We want a social Europe, otherwise the people will not trust us or follow us. Do you want to compete with the United States of America and China, using the methods that operate there, with America using its competitiveness for weapons, sometimes even for wars, and often forgetting its poor, and with China’s competitiveness partly relying on human rights violations? Mr Barroso, my question to you today is: do you wish to dissociate yourself from such methods, and base your approach on a European social market economy, which is our aim and purpose? Our problem in the next vote will be whether credibility can be preserved. If you create a new Europe employing a different sort of policy from that pursued in your country, then you might succeed, but if not, then we will often come into conflict with each other here."@en1
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