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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last but not least I would like to take my turn in welcoming our new colleagues from Romania and Bulgaria. They will, I hope, restore to the French language and culture a little of the lustre it has lost here as successive enlargements have taken place, in particular with the accession of countries from Northern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. I am not forgetting notable exceptions such as our late fellow Member from Poland, Filip Adwent.
I welcome, in particular, our five colleagues and friends from the Romania Mare party in the great country of Romania and our Bulgarian colleague from the Attack party. They have come as observers to the European Parliament at a time when Turkey, on 3 October 2005, will be starting its accession talks, even though its accession was one of the reasons why the Constitution was rejected, and without it having acknowledged the Republic of Cyprus and, furthermore, without it wanting to do so. I believe that, with 10% of its population of Turkish origin, Bulgaria is particularly sensitive to this major event.
May our colleagues know that they can count on our support in the European Parliament to defend the Europe of our native lands in the face of destructive globalisation and the flood of migrants. I note with interest the death knell that Mr Barroso, President of the European Commission, has just sounded to the defunct European Constitution. As a rational democrat, he has learned lessons from the French and Dutch referenda and scrapped this freedom-annihilating text. For once, law comes close to morality. The people’s opinion is superior to that of the technocrats, in spite of the various kinds of pressure being exerted by the great professional consciences.
As regards the financial perspectives for 2007-2013, the Franco-British battle over the rebate and the CAP budget is in danger of continuing unless the Community budget is increased beyond 1% of GDP to meet the needs of the CEECs. On that issue, we will denounce any withdrawal or climb-down from Mr Chirac and the French Government regarding the CAP. As loyal allies of the Americans, the British have but two objectives during their six-month Presidency: to get Turkey’s accession under way and to ensure that the much-vaunted ‘Bolkestein’ Directive on services is adopted. We will oppose them both.
Mr Chirac addressed the European Commission, quite shamelessly, to request its intervention in the Hewlett Packard affair, with its 1 240 compulsory redundancies. He publicly humiliated himself and France along with him. It is not up to the Commission, in fact, to intervene in the internal management of businesses. It is only natural that methods of protecting French economic and social interests should be decided in Paris and not in Brussels and Geneva.
Only the 2007 French presidential election, coming in the wake of the bombshell events of 29 May 2005, will mark the genuine break with Euro-internationalism and the spirit of renunciation. It is a break that all genuine Europeans are waiting for. This will be the return to national ideas and to economic patriotism in the service of the people. Having the formidable privilege of precedence, I believe I can be the most convincing spokesperson on this matter in France and in Europe."@en1
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