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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the financial crisis is now biting the real economy too, as we might in any case have easily predicted. We believe that this is the price that the European Union is paying for the delay in constructing or even the refusal to construct a European regulatory system and to establish in good time financial solidarity mechanisms and banking supervision that is worthy of the name.
Those responsible for this delay, and the advocates of this approach, which has placed Europe in a situation of extreme insecurity and recession, include you, Mr Barroso, you and the majority of your Commission. Mr President, I would like you, when you eloquently debate and talk of possible solutions, to say loud and clear that those who wanted rules and transparency, those who refused the totem of deregulation, were right, and I and a section of my committee – one of whom is even sitting behind you – were wrong. This is the only way that what you say today can be credible, and I am sorry but it is not true that the majority of the Member States was opposed to all these things.
As I have said to you on very many occasions between 2004 and now, you have systematically chosen to align yourself with the national governments, instead of with Parliament, and with industry rather than with consumers. If I were somewhat of a moralist, I would even say that you have aligned yourself with the strong rather than with the just. This approach, put forward by Joschka Fischer in his famous Humboldt speech laying down for the Commission a simple role of acting as secretariat for the Council, is faithfully reflected in the work programme that you are presenting to us today, in the priorities of internal and external policies.
Regarding the priorities in external affairs, I would particularly like to stress a continuing, reprehensible lack of attention to the issue of human rights, starting, of course, with China. There is also a rather superficial defence of the Doha Agenda, without the realisation that the financial crisis has removed all the assumptions on which it rested. On internal policies, regarding immigration, once more your Commission has in recent years ceded to the pressure of the Member States, and this is why today, when we talk about legal immigration, in reality we are referring to legislative instruments which remain very weak, and exactly the same can be said with regard to social policy.
Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, this is certainly not the way to succeed in setting in motion what the Greens have for many months now been calling the Green New Deal, and which today is very much in fashion. A Green New Deal has a very specific meaning and it is certainly not that confused babble that can be heard circulating and which in fact means ‘everything as before with a little bit of green here and there’. We are talking about a joint long-term investment strategy to achieve the aims of energy efficiency and an environmental shift in the economy, reductions in CO
with an enhanced role for the European Investment Bank, which ought to be, however, consistent in its decisions on who and what to finance.
There should be no ambiguity on useless mega-infrastructures or on nuclear power or on windfall funds for projects that are not good ones. There should be no public funds or blank cheques for the car industry, as it now is. This would be like carrying on throwing money down the drain, and we, I believe, do not want to throw any more money down the drain."@en1
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