Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-24-Speech-2-249"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Hour with the President of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091124.31.2-249"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-24-Speech-2-2502
lpv:speaker	lp:José Manuel Barroso2
lpv:spoken text	"I am extremely proud and happy that Catherine Ashton has been designated as the first Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative. It is an appointment that I very much supported and approved during the European Council. Of course, we all know her well as someone who has both the political skill and the sense of direction to take on the demanding task of High Representative and Vice-President of the Commission. We all know that this in an innovation. It will take time for all of us to learn how to use new arrangements to deliver the best results in terms of the European Union’s increased role in the world. What is clear is that we will only achieve this by a real partnership between institutions. That is what the double head is designed to provide and what I am determined that the Commission will offer: to have the best possible role in the world. Of course I am extremely happy that she comes from Britain – I think it is essential that Britain remains at the centre of the European Union – and also that she is a woman because, as you know, I have been very committed to the gender balance. So for all these reasons, and also because she is my colleague in the Commission, I was – as you can imagine – extremely happy with that decision."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"José Manuel Barroso,"1 "President of the Commission."1
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