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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Barroso, President-elect of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041117.9.3-188"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-11-17-Speech-3-1892
lpv:speaker	lp:Mogens Camre2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; UEN (2004-07-20--2007-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commissioners are appointed by the national governments and, just as the governments are of different political colours, so are the Commissioners’ political positions different. Out of respect for the right of Member States’ governments to appoint the Commission, I intended to vote in favour of the Commission initially presented by Mr Barroso. It was an expression of the pluralism in European politics, and Parliament had to live with the fact that there were Commissioners with whose positions we disagreed. As is well known, a majority of this Parliament did not wish to approve the Commission because of a single conservative Catholic Commissioner-designate, Mr Buttiglioni, who had some old-fashioned views on homosexuality and the position of women in society. Now, Mr Buttiglioni has been replaced following negotiations between the President of the Commission and Parliament’s group chairmen – not because of his actions but because of his personal views. There are still nominated candidates with a Communist past. Someone is still designated Commissioner for Competition who scarcely has the required independence for that post. The right of the Member States to appoint Commissioners themselves is therefore contested when the Commissioners concerned are Catholics with right-wing leanings but not when they are Communists and people with special financial interests. I am not a Catholic, and I do not share Mr Buttiglioni’s view of homosexuals or of female equality but, in the light of the clearly dictatorial censorship of opinion in the opposition to Mr Buttiglioni, I intend to vote against this Commission, which has been constituted in a way that does not reflect the various political positions in Europe. The EU contains, for example, Communists, as well as Catholics with right-wing leanings who share Mr Buttiglioni’s position. Only the first of these political positions is permitted according to this Parliament’s majority view. What is happening in this case is a very dangerous enforced orthodoxy, and I do not wish to be a party to approving this."@en1

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