Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-028"
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"To my surprise, Mr President, I enjoyed Mr Barroso’s speech. I particularly enjoyed the passage where he admitted to being short of money, although I fear this may be a first-time experience for some of the other members of the Commission. Mr Barroso, you also said the European Union will manage immigration and asylum policy. You said it is a European problem and therefore one best dealt with via a European approach. That was very helpful and will come as news to poor Michael Howard and the Conservatives in the British Parliament.
It has to be said that your work programme has been shaped largely by the Commission’s annual policy strategy for 2005, which was published in February 2004 under the
Commission. It is Mr Prodi we should be questioning today about the Commission’s central policy objective of economic growth. He did not do very well, did he? What a travesty of democracy! We have the EU’s policies for 2005 dictated by a defunct Commission and approved by an expired Parliament. It is only the present Parliament that is sidelined.
Do not worry, though, Mr Barroso, your luck is in: very few MEPs will even notice. The UK Independence Party, however, is very grateful to you because, as we are wont to say, ‘worse is better’!"@en1
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