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member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
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Mr President, as this is the first speech today by a Member from my group, please allow me to start by saying, on behalf of the Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, that we support the French workers who are on general strike against President Sarkozy’s anti-social measures.
The reasons mentioned by the President in his opening address for the lateness of the Council’s representatives are the blockades. There are numerous blockades and it is a general strike, which our group hopes will be a complete success and result in these anti-social policies being rectified across Europe.
I would like to thank my fellow Members for the work they have done, but inform them that unfortunately our group is going to abstain tomorrow. We are not going to vote against but we are not going to be able to vote in favour, as we consider that unfortunately, the result was not what we were aiming for. What we were aiming for was comprehensive control by this House of the External Action Service. Of course it has not been possible to change the structure, as that was not the matter in hand, and we are not convinced by that structure, which is taking responsibility for security and external policy.
We have fought a very significant democratic battle in the national parliaments – at least in mine – on security, in order to have complete control so that even any deployment of troops abroad must be subject to comprehensive parliamentary control.
Therefore, we are very far from that control, and for those reasons, we are not going to vote in favour tomorrow. In any case, I would like to conclude by thanking you for the work you have done."@en1
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