Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-09-15-Speech-2-240"
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"Mr President, I would like to guarantee President Barroso my support as the European People’s Party’s delegate, and express the hope that the present Europe Commission will be able to continue the job which has been started involving the social integration of the Roma. Important results have been achieved during this cycle, mainly during the last two years, but we are expecting a significantly deeper commitment and a greater sense of initiative in the future from this body which, as the exclusive initiator of Community legislation, can be the driving force in the battle against the poverty and exclusion affecting Europe’s largest minority, the Roma.
I hope that the creation of a new commissioner’s portfolio for justice, fundamental rights and civil liberties will encourage the Commission’s organisation to do more and in a more coordinated manner. I also hope that President Barroso will continue to actively promote his personal commitment to Roma affairs, which he has also expressed on several occasions, and that he will do his utmost to ensure that Heads of State or Government will assume a more vigorous role in devising a comprehensive, integrated programme spanning parties and cycles.
The social challenges affecting Roma and non-Roma alike are so serious and the consequences of inaction are so dangerous that we cannot afford to have the apathy and slip-ups of the previous cycle. We are expecting immediate, brave deeds and a radical change to the attitude held up until now from the past-present President, and for the Commission’s to be the flagship of a pan-European Roma Strategy to be developed as soon as possible, based on regulatory norms, a stable budget and clear political commitment."@en1
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