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"Mr President, President of the Commission, over recent years Europe has taken many steps forward and some important goals have been achieved: reunification with the eastern countries, the birth of the euro, the signing of the first Constitution; these were achieved through the commitment of all the Union’s institutions: Commission, Council and Parliament.
I have to be equally honest and say that other objectives which fall within the Commission’s remit have been disregarded. First, the Lisbon tasks have been trivialised, and the spring reports have often disappointed us; secondly, in industrial policy there has been a lack of activity in making proposals and planning; thirdly, with regard to legislative activity, the annual programmes have never topped 50%; fourthly, with regard to the reform of the Commission, there has been too much parachuting in from above to fill appointments. To sum up, over these last five years there have been many shadows which have dimmed the good work done by so many Commissioners, starting with Mrs Loyola de Palacio.
For all that, Mr Prodi, your term of office had begun with the best possible omens. Parliament had given you its almost unanimous approval. Even we, your political opponents in Italy, had given you our vote of confidence for the sake of the greater interests of the European Union and of our country. We wanted to show you that national polemics is one thing, but that the leadership of the European institutions is quite another. Because of our great sense of responsibility, we have never withdrawn our support from you in this Chamber.
You, on the other hand, have preferred to use your prestigious post in order to carry out political activities in Italy directed against the government and to take on the leadership of the opposition. We have been deeply saddened by this. We would have preferred to see you adopt an attitude like that of Jacques Delors, who forsook the leadership of the commune of Clichy before taking on the presidency of the Commission. That was an overt way of making it clear that leading the Commission cannot be combined with participating in national politics."@en1
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