Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-09-11-Speech-3-029-000"
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"Mr President, I am amazed that we have had this State of the Union address today. I am surprised that Mrs Merkel has not asked us to postpone it until after the German general election.
Well, Mr Barroso, this was your fourth and last State of the Union address and you have brought along the rest of your appointed Commission – for support. Never before has a tier of this Parliament been filled with such incompetence and failure.
A question, why is it that it is the President of the unelected arm of the EU that gives this address? Why is it not President Schulz?
One Member of your Commission is here today, despite only having an attendance record of 52%, almost as low as a UKIP MEP. Your flagship policy, when you became President, was the much-vaunted Lisbon Strategy which seeks to make the EU the most dynamic economy in the world. That sank without trace. In fact the EU has gone into reverse. Unemployment, especially among youth, is rocketing and little Miss Red Tape sitting next to you is not helping.
Mr Barroso, your own Commission’s poll shows there is no trust in the EU. The people of the biggest five countries feel the EU is not working. Two-thirds of people across the EU think their views are not being heard. No wonder – but when they do express an opinion, for example in a rare referendum, they are treated with contempt and told that somehow they do not understand. The arrogance is palpable. The people must be listened to. Let the people decide."@en1
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