Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-018"
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"Mr President, the last time I spoke in Strasbourg it seemed to cause a little bit of a stir. All I was doing was getting up and telling the truth, but perhaps the time between my telling people about Mr Barrot and the vote was not long enough for people to really think it through. So what we have done as a Parliament is approve a Commission without having access to the full information available.
That simply cannot be right and I am asking under Rule 108 – and yes, I do think that football may be important, but this is rather more important – that Mr Barroso come here this afternoon so he can explain to us the circumstances of Mr Barrot’s appointment and we can discuss why our scrutiny procedures failed so dismally. Then perhaps we can seek some assurances from Mr Barroso that next time things are going to be different. What could be more important here today in this European Parliament than having this debate?
This Commission, like the Commission that went before it and the one before that, starts under the most enormous shadow and I do not think that these European institutions will have any credibility at all unless we have this debate."@en1
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