Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-02-09-Speech-2-106"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-02-09"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100209.9.2-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-02-09-Speech-2-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:José Manuel Barroso2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, very briefly I wish to express on my own behalf, and on behalf of all the members of the Commission, my sincerest gratitude for the confidence that has just been placed in us. We are proud and humbled by the vote. We see there is strong support across the political spectrum; this is an important moment for Europe, a real mandate for boldness. I also want to thank the President of the Council for his warm words. I believe we now have the conditions to go to work. But let me just make a comment. During this vote, I have heard here some remarks and I want to state very clearly that those who compare totalitarian Soviet Union with the European Union do not know what it was to live under dictatorship and they do not know what democracy is. In the European Union, we have a democratic European Parliament, and this is democracy. In the European Union, we have a European Commission elected by you as the elected representatives of the citizens of Europe, and this is democracy. We believe that, now, with the democratic legitimacy which was given to us by you, by the designation of the democratic governments of all of our 27 Member States, we are proud and confident in working with full determination for the good of democracy in Europe, a Europe which is, in fact, a beacon of freedom in the world."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "José Manuel Barroso,"1 "President of the Commission."1
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