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"Today, Mr Barroso, let me adopt a different tone to yesterday’s. The past we share, the time – thirty years ago – that we sang
together, oblige me to be frank and perfectly straightforward with you.
In this Parliament, the Left has a problem: it is characterised by ideological decay, a problem as acute among the Greens as it is among the rest. The Right has a problem: it is characterised by authoritarianism, a moralistic approach, and neo-liberalism.
At the end of the day, life is complicated and love means telling the truth. I love you.
Mr Barroso, you declare yourself to be a man of the centre and a reformist. Now the problem with the centre is that they are opportunists. That, Mr Barroso, is why my group cannot have any confidence in your appointment. The fact is that, when you are with some, you are in favour of sustainable development, with others, you are in favour of the market, with others still, you favour the social dimension; when you meet God, you are in favour of God, and when you meet with secularists, you are against God being mentioned in the European Constitution.
Mr Barroso, I am sure you are capable of being a good President of the Commission. The problem is precisely as described by Mr Schulz, who was, for once, speaking with great clarity. If, for one moment during all your speeches, you had found it in you to show us some small change of heart; if you had said: ‘Yes, it is true that I took that decision, but it was a difficult one. In view of what is going on in Iraq, I feel rather ashamed, two years further on, of having been in the Azores, arm in arm with George Bush’; if, at any time, you had told us that, in view of what is currently going on in your own country’s society following your reforms, you were questioning the way in which you had carried out those reforms; and if, at any time, we had been able to feel that you could see what our problems were, we would have been able to say: ‘He knows how to communicate and how to change; we have to give him a chance’.
As, however, you have at no time been capable of such doubt, which is itself the most intelligent form of European philosophy, Mr Barroso, the Group of the Greens, acting in a frank, honest and clear manner, will not be voting for you today.
If you are elected, I will cheer you, and if you are not, I will advise you to make Socrates your holiday reading."@en1
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