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"President Barroso, the lay fundamentalism that dominates Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has forced your Commission to replace Professor Buttiglione with another Commissioner, who was subjected to a battery of questions and who had to stick rigorously to the strictest politically correct line.
Despite all that, there strangely remains in this Commission a person such as Mr Louis Michel, who, as a Belgian minister, even called for our country to be suspended, with sanctions, from the ranks of European democracies solely because it the
political movement was part of its government. What a fine champion of democracy and tolerance! We shall certainly keep him under observation, President Barroso, in the years to come.
The Commission is glad that qualified majority voting has been adopted even on such sensitive issues as asylum and immigration, which are, however, matters that require sensitivity on the part of individual nations, states, and even regions, and for which these themselves should be directly responsible.
This Commission staunchly upholds the primacy of European law over the laws of individual nations. That says a lot about the process of expropriation of national regions. This Commission continues to ignore and ride roughshod over the basic rights of minority peoples, which must be upheld by someone: the rights of nations without a state – Corsicans, Basques, Alsatians, Sardinians, Occitanians – whose rights are not recognised by the Commission."@en1
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