Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-17-Speech-3-212"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Barroso, President-elect of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041117.9.3-212"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-11-17-Speech-3-2132
lpv:speaker	lp:Luca Romagnoli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-27--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Movimento Sociale Fiamma tricolore (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President-elect of the Commission, it is not a sundial that you have set in motion but a legal clock, which has no roots in history and is not of our civilisation. I shall not be voting for your Commission because you have not resolved the numerous conflicts of interest. Through hard work, logic and mechanisms typical and emblematic of the most sinister type of government by compromise, you have merely managed to shuffle the designated Commissioners. You have easily persuaded the most pro-Atlantic and pro-United States ally in the Council of Europe to replace Professor Buttiglione – who, while I do not subscribe to the prejudices expressed by him against working mothers, has been discriminated against all too easily – while Mr Kóvacs and Mrs Kroes, who are both involved in affairs where there is a clear conflict of interest, remain among your Commissioners. You spoke of social justice, of the leading role of the Union, of support for sustainable development, pretending all the while that that did not openly contradict the policies that you and many of your Commissioners support – policies that are against the nations and against the interests of their peoples, like the European Constitution, that sprawling bureaucratic monstrosity that all of you want to impose on the people of Europe. If this Commission endeavours to eliminate social discrimination, if it rectifies policies that are making life more precarious, if it supports policies that encourage population growth and are pro-family, if it defends our manufacturers from attack by competitors from outside Europe, if it puts an end to all processes of enlargement unless the people of Europe have first been asked for their opinion on the proposition, then it may well have our support. Otherwise, you will find in your path the men and women of Europe, who are as hard as the stones of Karnak and as sun-baked as the stones of the Parthenon, who will remain fiercely hostile to you, as they are today."@en1

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