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"en.20041117.9.3-231"2
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"Madam President, Mr President-elect of the Commission, the Council will not help you since it does not seek to increase your power, otherwise the famous peer pressure, which the Council wants us to believe is the best method for moving forward, would have led the Dutch Presidency to accept that it was a mistake to continue the stubbornness of the Italians. Neither the Dutch Presidency nor the European Council have helped you, so you have a weakened candidate in a crucial position within your Commission. Your institution will come out of this weaker, so listen to what the European Parliament is saying to you.
In the letter that Mr Borrell sent you on behalf of the committee which I chair, we asked you what transparent method of warning and monitoring would be used in the event of a conflict of interests, a conflict which I believe will go much further than the cases highlighted by your legal services, since the problem is not a matter of which board of directors Mrs Kroes has been a member of, but rather of knowing in which sector she learned to defend a particular company or fight another.
You provided no reassurance in your speech either on this point or on the way in which you will relieve Mrs Kroes of her responsibilities in the event of a conflict of interests. It cannot be the Director-General who becomes a twenty-sixth Commissioner …"@en1
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