Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-03-22-Speech-3-088"
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"Mr President, I would like to make three points.
The first point is that I am actually playing the ‘good cop’ as opposed to the ‘bad cop’ like Malcolm Harbour. I think this strategy is quite good. The Commission is coming forward with this at a very opportune time, when there is an atmosphere of nationalism and protectionism. As a matter of fact, unlike many of the strategies that you have provided before, Mr Barroso – I would call them ‘nato’: no action talk only – this one has a lot of action.
However, I agree with Mr Harbour that you might want to come up with an alternative name. You call this document – not necessarily very aptly – ‘boosting trust through action’. Perhaps you should seek some advice from an advertising agency before you come up with the next branding. It is a tough thing to do but that is not going to do it.
The second point is that I agree with the focus on communication. Mrs Wallström, you of course play a very important part in doing that. We do not have a democratic deficit, we do not have an information deficit – we have almost too much of it – but we
have a communication deficit. The paper that you put forward on European communication is quite good. We have big problems: John Bowis was talking about church organs a second ago and of course we know that it is utter rubbish. However, when respectable broadsheets like
come up with headlines like ‘EU forces you to recycle dildos’, then you are in trouble. It was about a directive on electrical appliances: if you take the appliance back to a store, it must be recycled. However, it is this type of communication that we really need to get rid of.
The final point I wanted to make is that the EU is very often used as a scapegoat. Everything that is bad comes out of the EU, everything that is good comes from the Member States. Therefore, I would encourage you, Mrs Wallström, to focus more on communication on the Constitution. It is a good Constitution, we need it; keep it alive until spring 2007 and let us see what happens after that."@en1
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