Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-13-Speech-2-032"
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"Mr President, Mr Barroso this morning sounds rather like a bad First World War general: let us do the same thing we did last week, even though it did not work.
There is absolutely no recognition that the model simply is not working. I mean, how could he talk about growth and jobs without acknowledging that this wonderful, fabled Lisbon Strategy has been a total disaster? We have not achieved a single one of the objectives. And yet we talk about growth and jobs, but what are we going to do? Are we going to deregulate? Are we going to lift the burden off business? No, nothing of the kind.
I wonder how he has got the front to talk about a sustainable Europe when we still have the same common fisheries policy, we are still throwing back, dead, up to 50% of the fish we catch and yet we are going to stick with the quota system.
But perhaps my favourite is the idea that this Commission programme is going to put the citizens first. That is laughable! If you wanted to put the citizens first, you would respect their opinions. You would have listened to what the French and Dutch said and you would give them, with this new Treaty, the opportunity, in free and fair and open referendums, to see whether they share with you the same vision for the future of Europe.
But you are doing none of that. You are burying your heads in the sand. You are pretending it is not happening and you are actually destroying your own European Union because the whole thing falls further into public contempt."@en1
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