Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-03-22-Speech-3-084"
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"en.20060322.11.3-084"2
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"Mr President, I have read all 15 dreary pages of this document and believe it to be a report of the past rather than a document for the future. The phrase that comes to mind is one often seen on a schoolboy’s report: ‘could do better’. Indeed, if your dream is to change the minds of the people of the European Union, it is a ‘must do better’.
We are treated to terms like ‘strategic objects’, ‘policy strategy’, ‘new directions’, ‘effective communications’ and ‘genuine dialogues’. We are promised that more money will be spent on regional funds, cohesion funds, social funds, globalised funds, fisheries funds, etc. – all this to gain the trust and commitment of the citizens. But where are the words ‘freedom’, ‘choice’ and ‘the individual’? George Orwell’s
comes to mind – except that I believe he got the year wrong, but it is just around the corner; then it will be ‘control, control, control’ of the individual.
Given the referendums on the EU, or even the elections, the true sentiments of the people will show that most want to say ‘no’ to this bureaucratic nightmare."@en1
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