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During an explanation of vote on 15 September 1999, I particularly objected to the nomination of the proposed new Commissioner, Mr Bolkestein.
At the time, he was the candidate with the most outspoken preferences for the forced privatisation of government tasks and for cancelling all manner of EU tasks that do not fit into his ultra-liberal view of the economy. He has bequeathed to us a draft services directive that is already known to be horrific, deactivating as it does national rules intended to protect labour by getting them to compete against each other.
I objected to Mr Bolkestein because he is an ideologist of the wrong kind of Europe, although I have always taken his qualities as politician completely seriously. That cannot be said about the equally Liberal successor that the Netherlands has provided this time round.
She disappeared from the Dutch political scene fifteen years ago and has since, on a number of occasions, been the subject of adverse news coverage because of her previous actions as minister and her subsequent conduct as a businesswoman. As I indicated in yesterday’s debate, she always made controversial choices to the sole benefit of small groups of interested parties rather than the public interest. That is why we should very much consider the fact that she …"@en1
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