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I and my UK Conservative colleagues have abstained in the vote on the Barroso Commission because, whilst broadly supporting the President-designate, we have a major issue with the Commission as a whole.
We recognise that Mr Barroso has the qualities needed to fulfil his duties and that he broadly shares our views on the Lisbon Strategy and on transatlantic relations and we also recognise that his Commission, on balance, shares his approach. We regard this as a positive and are thus, in principle, supportive.
However, for us there are significant problems with, in particular, the debate over the withdrawal of Mr Buttiglione as candidate Commissioner whilst at the same time retaining at least one other Commissioner-designate who was the subject of serious criticism at his previous committee hearing. I consider that this is a blatant example of discrimination. We find this unacceptable, as we do the pledges given by Commissioners-designate to endeavour to implement provisions of the Constitution prior to its formal adoption. This we regard as anti-democratic.
Given these conflicting aspects of the Commission proposed by Mr Barroso, we have, with regret, decided that we have no alternative but to abstain."@en1
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