Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-16-Speech-2-218"
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"Mr President, yes, it will end in tears; the question is, which? I do not believe you have taken the European Union forward with your decision, which you have announced today, certainly not towards being a superpower, but you have taken another step towards implosion. Because you are again acting quite contrary to what you claim are your criteria, there will now be a disastrous marriage between the cultures of corruption of Brussels and Strasbourg and those of Bucharest and Sofia.
The people who are pushing you to do that, namely the British and Polish Governments, will have to answer to their electorates for it. I wonder whom the Commission will answer to? The day before yesterday, the
wrote: ‘The real problem is not the supposed dependence of the judiciary, but on the contrary its almost complete independence from all means of control. Judges and public prosecutors need fear no supervision, because so far there has been none. The judiciary enjoys great freedom, frequently even freedom from justice and the law. There is plenty of scope for buying judgments’. Yesterday’s
reports that the head of the Federation of German Detectives said on his return: ‘It is pointless. Whenever I tried to go into details they said disclosure was against the national interest’.
The mistake was to promise them accession too early. Why are you still making even more mistakes by continuing to talk as though you wanted to take the Union forward?"@en1
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