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This motion for a joint resolution – joint for those groups who signed it – is highly significant. ‘Whereas’, ‘welcomes’, ‘applauds’, ‘hopes that’, ‘requests that’ (and although), the signatories voted in favour of the new Commission in its patched-up line-up.
What those signatories welcome, applaud, hope for and request does not, however, in any way change, let alone improve upon, the reasons – political reasons – why we voted against Mr Durão Barroso’s appointment as President of the Commission.
The Commission in its current form is simply the team that will press ahead with political choices that go against what we stand for and what we fight for.
The October episode and the one-off show of unity that it gave rise to left one in no doubt. The Commissioners-designate who are scandalous examples of the sordid relationship between economic and financial power and the political institutions have been retained, and indeed their position has been strengthened. The replacement for the Commissioner who so offended some Members’ human rights sensitivities in the hearings trotted out the same answers prepared by the services for the supposed Commissioner he was replacing because of statements that he had made during the hearings.
We have no choice but to vote against this draft resolution, as we did in July"@en1
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