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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last June the people of Europe confirmed their support for the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) by making our group the leading force of this Parliament, for the third time in a row.
Having said that, Mr President, Madam President of the Council, I have an appeal to make to you. Once the President of the Commission has been elected, you must immediately set about forming the rest of the College, regardless of the Treaty in force.
As for you, Mr Barroso, if, as I hope, a majority of MEPs give you their support tomorrow, this will not be a blank cheque. You know this, but it is my duty to tell you again here. Since the PPE Group shares most of your beliefs, you also have a responsibility: to ensure that, over the next five years, the work of your Commission meets our expectations and those of Europeans.
We have faith in you, but have no doubt that we will also fulfil our duty as legislator under the partnership that you will propose.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your attention.
Through their vote, our fellow citizens expressed clear choices: the choice of a stable and strong Europe, in a period of crisis and of doubt; the choice of a social market economy endowed with ethical rules; and the choice of a responsible climate and energy policy. Since the PPE Group was the only party to put forward a candidate for the presidency of the Commission, several months prior to the elections, it followed that the people of Europe themselves implicitly approved the choice of Mr Barroso by giving us the most votes.
I, for my part, am proud that the PPE Group made this choice and, dare I say it, I am proud that it took this risk.
Everyone knows what the PPE Group’s priorities are: they are the ones that inspired the fathers of Europe and that continue to inspire the majority of the governments in today’s Europe. The greater part of these objectives are shared and upheld by the current President of the Commission, Mr Barroso.
Ladies and gentlemen, the PPE Group supports Mr Barroso because he has proved himself. He has proved himself on the energy and climate package and he has enabled Europe to become the world’s pioneer in the fight against global warming. It is this pioneering Europe that will be the role model at the Copenhagen conference. He has proved himself on the raising of moral standards in the financial systems, enabling Europe to be the first to learn the lessons of a financial crisis that no one, and I mean no one, had anticipated. It is Europe and the Barroso Commission that are showing our US and Asian partners the direction to go in at the G20.
In the past, Europe was described as a political dwarf. How can one fail to be delighted that, on the two issues of major concern to Europeans – the crisis and climate change – Europe is finally on the front line?
I would add that Mr Barroso is the first candidate for President of the Commission to have involved Parliament so closely in his work and in the definition of the guidelines. He is the first to have proposed a genuine partnership between these two institutions by means of a whole series of concrete measures.
That, I believe, is an important development for European parliamentarianism; it is an opportunity that we MEPs must seize. That is why my group hopes that President Barroso will form a new Commission and set to work as quickly as possible.
Obviously, the President of the Commission could not represent a single party. Obviously, he must compromise with a college of commissioners belonging to several political families. We welcome this because Europe can only be built in a spirit of openness and of consensus-building."@en1
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