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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, I think the majority of my fellow Members are being extremely unfair to you. They voted for all the texts that are largely responsible for the current situation. They voted for all the texts on free trade, all the texts that have resulted in the European Economic Area no longer being protected against fierce competition from industrialising countries.
In reality, the crisis is a structural crisis as everyone knows. It is essentially the result of the de-industrialisation of most of Europe or, at any rate, the loss of the virtual monopoly of industry we enjoyed until now.
The crisis is also undoubtedly due financially to the increase in public spending, but this increase in public spending has long been known by another name: socialism. This is socialism indeed. A creeping socialism that has, in fact, been practised with great freedom and ease by supposedly liberal regimes.
Nevertheless, Mr Barroso, before concluding, I would, however, like to ask you one question. A debate has raged for three days in France, ahead of the first round of presidential elections, over a mysterious text entitled ‘Towards a job-rich recovery’. Journalists got access to this text. The media claims the Commissioner responsible for the matter will present it today in Strasbourg. Today maybe, in Strasbourg undoubtedly, but not, at any rate, to MEPs, unless the brief comments you just made on employment are supposed to serve this purpose. I have not seen this text. However, I have seen comments and even denials of these comments made by Commission officials. How can we back-pedal like this on such an important issue?
Mr Barroso, even as I listened to you call for economic and financial austerity, I could not help but be reminded of US President Herbert Hoover in the 1930s, promising that prosperity was just around the corner. I am not sure that the promise he made was any more serious than the one you are making to us."@en1
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"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question from Marisa Matias under Rule 149(8))"1
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