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"Mr President, today in this House we have an illustration of the deficiency in the current procedures, with a motion of censure being necessary to try to extract information sufficient to meet suspicions about potential conflicts of interest. It was met, of course, with a predictable grovelling response by the majority in this House. Yet this report itself accepts those same deficient procedures. The report tries to make much of Article 2 of the Framework Agreement, but the flaw therein is that while it bestows on the Commission President the obligation to identify and act upon conflicts of interests affecting Commissioners, nothing is put in place to identify and act upon such conflicts affecting the President himself. Thus the same situation which gave rise to today’s debate continues to exist unaddressed by this report. What is obviously needed is a wholly independent Commissioner for standards in public life.
As my second point, I take this opportunity to distance myself from the ritual obeisance to the Constitution that appears in recital A. Alas, this besotted committee feels it cannot speak without showing cringing deference to the ill
fated Constitution, ever peddling the lie that it will deepen democracy, when in reality it is asset
stripping every nation state of more democracy and more power."@en1
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