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"Mr Barroso, in July my colleague Mr Pannella and I declared our confidence in you but also suggested that you should add an agenda for democracy to your proposed agenda for peace and development.
Perhaps we had the gift of premonition, because today we are in fact discussing whether our Union is a parliamentary democracy or not, whether Parliament’s prerogatives are being upheld by the President of the Commission, who is the guardian of the Treaties. To us, this certainly does not seem to be the case.
It is not the Buttiglione affair that is at stake today but the Barroso affair, and that means the relationship between Commission, Parliament and Council. It is purely and simply the democracy of our European Union that is under discussion today. It is not an institutional crisis at all, but rather a mere political crisis which, I believe, may even have highly positive consequences. Mr Barroso, this Parliament and this parliamentary democracy are the essence of our European Union."@en1
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