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"en.20041118.7.4-072"2
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I opted to make the Commission proposed by President Barroso viable because I feel that, in light of recent events, to bring down the new Commission would cause a major crisis in the running of the EU and would trigger serious conflict between the institutions. Although the most inappropriate of the original Commissioners-designate has, thanks to Parliament’s intervention, been prevented from taking up his post in the college of Commissioners, I feel that this is a Commission with an excessively neoliberal bias, under a leadership that could do a good job provided it does not backslide on the democratic principles and objectives of European integration.
I could not, however, vote in favour of the Commission due to serious misgivings about the fact that Mrs Kroes has retained her competition portfolio. I have no doubts as to her skills, not least because her appointment would be a case of ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’. What is at stake, however, is her personal suitability – essential in a Commissioner – given that, among the numerous multinationals to which she has declared professional links, she omitted the arms producer Lockheed Martin.
I also have reservations about the portfolio of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs going to an ex-Minister under Mr Berlusconi, jointly responsible for the delay in adopting the arrest warrant (…)"@en1
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"(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137 of the Rules of Procedure)"1
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