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"Mr President, Mr President-designate, I voted for you in July but, today, I wish to share my worries with you.
At the first presentation of your Commission, you in fact took until the last second of the last minute of the last hour finally to appreciate that there was a problem. You gave way before our Parliament, not so much out of respect for our institution but because you had no other option. As I see it, that showed how indifferent you were for a time to what we were saying. The fact is, it was your responsibility and your duty to understand us, to hear us and to support us in this matter. You should have been on our side. Mistakenly, you chose to be on the side of the Heads of State or Government. You then deliberately chose to offer us a merely partial and limited response.
In the space of a few weeks, you had two historic opportunities, Mr Barroso, to affirm your independence of the Council, and you decided not to do so. That does not augur well for all those who do not want an intergovernmental Europe but who, instead, want to construct a genuinely political and democratic Europe. Tomorrow, there will be no suspense. You will receive the formal approval of our Parliament. You will still, however, have the most vital task ahead of you: that of finally winning the confidence of the majority of MEPs."@en1
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