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Verbatim report of proceedings
Tuesday, 6 September 2005 - Strasbourg OJ edition

Question Time (Commission)
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  Gay Mitchell (PPE-DE). I welcome the Commissioner's general response and I also welcome the white paper, but I do not agree with her. I think people need to be told that the European Union is an unprecedented success, compared with anything that went before at any time in history, following unprecedented consultation. There are consultation groups and citizens' groups; if you had put a group outside Pilate's palace they still would have told you to free Barabas. What we need is an 'L' plan, not a 'D' plan. We need leadership to go out and tell people that 60 million people died in the first half of the last century and this project – this unprecedented successful project – is about ensuring it never happens again. You cannot have prosperity without peace and stability.

 
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