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"Ladies and gentlemen, I should like to draw your attention to certain statements made by Mr Buttiglione, the Minister for European Affairs in the Italian Government. These statements were detrimental to the image of the European Parliament, and were made in January, when Mr Buttiglione gave an address at the University of Lublin during an official visit to Poland. The address was subsequently printed in the leading Polish daily, under the striking title of ‘The humiliation of a Christian’. Mr Buttiglione complained that the European Parliament did not endorse his candidature for Commissioner because of his views on homosexuality. He failed to mention his opinions on the role of women, single mothers or asylum policy. He levelled accusations at us, alleging that a powerful Brussels lobby wishes to impose on all Member States the recognition of same-sex marriages and the active promotion of a homosexual lifestyle by all countries. I shall spare you his other accusations and come to my conclusion, which is the following. Mr Buttiglione states that it is essential to reform the European Parliament so as to avoid future injustices of the kind perpetrated against him. There is a threatening ring to such a statement on limiting the rights granted to Parliament by the Treaties, made by someone who is a Minister for European Affairs and failed candidate for Commissioner. I leave you to make your own ethical and political assessment of the statement, ladies and gentlemen."@en1

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