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Mr President, Mr Barroso, how nice it is for us to be able to continue our conversation that was so rudely interrupted just a month ago.
You talked this morning about leading in Europe, and there is much talk of five-year plans, of the great visions that you have; but it seems to me that you have one or two problems. There is the problem of legitimacy, and the Commission has the problem of credibility. On whose authority are you people the government of Europe? I certainly have never been asked whether that is what I want. The total failure of the hearings of the Commissioners that went through this Parliament has cast a very dark shadow over your Commission. You know as well as I do that the gap between what you want and what the ordinary voters want is getting wider. That is why the turnout in the European elections in June was down to a record low. People know that the Lisbon agenda is nothing more than a joke and that the economic model in the European Union is simply not working.
Perhaps the Constitution and the referendums that we are going to have offer us both a chance for a solution; but they must be free and fair referendums. I would like your assurance that any information that goes out to Member States in which there are going to be referendums presents both sides of the argument, so that we can have a free and fair result. Not to do so is to risk long-term public contempt."@en1
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