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"Mr President, you have heard me many times in this Chamber fighting my lonely and gruelling war of attrition against the establishment of these new EU supervisory agencies in the field of financial services.
My contention throughout has been that they were a solution to a non-existent problem. None of the people you can blame for the financial crisis are covered by the remit of these agencies. This is not, in my view, a proportionate, considered response to an identified problem, but an ideological move to have more European integration for its own sake.
Any doubt as to who was right was surely removed by the farce that we saw a few moments ago, when the President asked the House who the three candidates that we had just approved were, and not a single MEP was able to reply.
So why did we so overwhelmingly vote to appoint these nominees? I suspect it was because what Commissioner Barnier said in recommending them – they had been chosen ‘because of their commitment to Europe’. So that is what it is about. It has nothing to do with improving financial services and everything to do with extending Brussels control.
I will finish by echoing Lord Dartmouth’s call: if – as was suggested today – we need to have female candidates in some of these roles, I can think of no one better than the whistle-blower who brought down the previous Commission, my South-East of England colleague Ms Andreasen."@en1
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