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The Day After - 02 February 2012 - European Parliament, Brussels.
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The Day After - 02 February 2012 - European Parliament, Brussels.
Nirj Deva MEP (ECR) questions the impartiality of President Schulz and points to the rules of procedure which Mr Schulz had breached the day before in his confrontation with UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP
See: EU parliament president under fire over 'breach' of rules of procedure
Parliament's newly-elected president Martin Schulz has been branded "unfit" for the prestige post after allegedly breaking parliamentary rules of procedure.
The attack comes after Schulz reacted to a speech in a parliamentary debate by UKIP leader Nigel Farage on Wednesday.
In the debate about the outcome of Monday's EU summit, Farage accused Schulz of "allowing himself" to make a comment on the content of his speech.
Farage said, "To my understanding, the president cannot use his position to take a political advantage during a debate over a speaker who is not allowed to answer."
The British deputy cited a parliamentary rule of procedure, which states, "The president may speak in a debate only to sum up or to call speakers to order. Should he wish to take part in a debate, he shall vacate the chair and shall not reoccupy it until the debate is over."
In a letter to Schulz, Farage said, "It looks as if you as president have broken parliament's rules of procedure."
Farage says that when he protested against this "unfair" intervention, the German MEP's "only answer was to threaten me with removal from the chamber by the ushers".
"I would ask you, as the guardian of the codes of conduct, whether you believe your action was worthy of the position you hold."
Later, Farage was even more damning of Schulz, accusing him of a "bullying, aggressive" approach.
Farage, who plans to raise the issue in a meeting of political group leaders, told this website, "The president should be strictly neutral but I am afraid he is showing his bias less than two weeks into his presidency of parliament. Based on this incident he has shown himself to be incapable of fulfilling his duties. Basically, he is unsuitable for the job."
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Music credit: 'The Red Army is the Strongest' - by the Red Army Choir
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The Day After - 02 February 2012 - European Parliament, Brussels.
Nirj De...
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The Day After - 02 February 2012 - European Parliament, Brussels.
Nirj Deva MEP (ECR) questions the impartiality of President Schulz and points to the rules of procedure which Mr Schulz had breached the day before in his confrontation with UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP
See: EU parliament president under fire over 'breach' of rules of procedure
Parliament's newly-elected president Martin Schulz has been branded "unfit" for the prestige post after allegedly breaking parliamentary rules of procedure.
The attack comes after Schulz reacted to a speech in a parliamentary debate by UKIP leader Nigel Farage on Wednesday.
In the debate about the outcome of Monday's EU summit, Farage accused Schulz of "allowing himself" to make a comment on the content of his speech.
Farage said, "To my understanding, the president cannot use his position to take a political advantage during a debate over a speaker who is not allowed to answer."
The British deputy cited a parliamentary rule of procedure, which states, "The president may speak in a debate only to sum up or to call speakers to order. Should he wish to take part in a debate, he shall vacate the chair and shall not reoccupy it until the debate is over."
In a letter to Schulz, Farage said, "It looks as if you as president have broken parliament's rules of procedure."
Farage says that when he protested against this "unfair" intervention, the German MEP's "only answer was to threaten me with removal from the chamber by the ushers".
"I would ask you, as the guardian of the codes of conduct, whether you believe your action was worthy of the position you hold."
Later, Farage was even more damning of Schulz, accusing him of a "bullying, aggressive" approach.
Farage, who plans to raise the issue in a meeting of political group leaders, told this website, "The president should be strictly neutral but I am afraid he is showing his bias less than two weeks into his presidency of parliament. Based on this incident he has shown himself to be incapable of fulfilling his duties. Basically, he is unsuitable for the job."
Read further:
http://www.thepar...
Music credit: 'The Red Army is the Strongest' - by the Red Army Choir
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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 16 November 2011
• Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy)
• Debate: EU Economic Governance - Statements by the Presidents of the European Council (Herman Van Rompuy), the Commission (José Manuel Barroso) and the Eurogroup (Jean-Claude Juncker) - [2011/2902(RSP)]:
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"Here we are on the edge of a financial and social disaster and in the room today we have the four men who are supposed to be responsible. And yet we have listened to the dullest most, technocratic speeches I've ever heard.
You are all in denial. By any objective measure the euro is a failure. And who exactly is responsible, who is in charge out of all you lot? The answer is none of you because none of you have been elected; none of you have any democratic legitimacy for the roles you currently hold within this crisis.
And into this vacuum, albeit reluctantly, has stepped Angela Merkel. And we are now living in a German-dominated Europe - something that the European project was actually supposed to stop. Something that those who went before us actually paid a heavy price in blood to prevent. I don't want to live in a German-dominated Europe and nor do the citizens of Europe.
But you guys have played a role, because when Mr Papandreou got up and used the word 'referendum' - or Mr Rehn, you described it as 'a breach of confidence', and your friends here got together like a pack of hyenas, rounded on Papandreou, had him removed and replaced by a puppet Government. What an absolutely disgusting spectacle that was.
And not satisfied with that, you decided that Berlesconi had to go. So he was removed and replaced by Mr Monti, a former European Commissioner, a fellow architect of this Euro disaster and a man who wasn't even a member of parliament.
It's getting like an Agatha Christie novel, where we're trying to work out who is the next person that's going to be bumped off. The difference is, we know who the villains are. You should all be held accountable for what you've done. You should all be fired.
And I have to say, Mr Van Rompuy. 18 months ago when we first met, I was wrong about you. I said you would be the quiet assassin of nation states' democracy, but not anymore, you are rather noisy about it aren't you. You, an unelected man, went to Italy and said, 'This is not the time for elections but the time for actions'. What in God's name gives you the right to say that to the Italian people.
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Video Source: EbS - European Parliament
Music from Velvet Choker (Cornerstone Cues)
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EU Member States:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom
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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 16 November 2011
• Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy)
• Debate: EU Economic Governance - Statements by the Presidents of the European Council (Herman Van Rompuy), the Commission (José Manuel Barroso) and the Eurogroup (Jean-Claude Juncker) - [2011/2902(RSP)]:
http://www.europa...
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Transcript:
"Here we are on the edge of a financial and social disaster and in the room today we have the four men who are supposed to be responsible. And yet we have listened to the dullest most, technocratic speeches I've ever heard.
You are all in denial. By any objective measure the euro is a failure. And who exactly is responsible, who is in charge out of all you lot? The answer is none of you because none of you have been elected; none of you have any democratic legitimacy for the roles you currently hold within this crisis.
And into this vacuum, albeit reluctantly, has stepped Angela Merkel. And we are now living in a German-dominated Europe - something that the European project was actually supposed to stop. Something that those who went before us actually paid a heavy price in blood to prevent. I don't want to live in a German-dominated Europe and nor do the citizens of Europe.
But you guys have played a role, because when Mr Papandreou got up and used the word 'referendum' - or Mr Rehn, you described it as 'a breach of confidence', and your friends here got together like a pack of hyenas, rounded on Papandreou, had him removed and replaced by a puppet Government. What an absolutely disgusting spectacle that was.
And not satisfied with that, you decided that Berlesconi had to go. So he was removed and replaced by Mr Monti, a former European Commissioner, a fellow architect of this Euro disaster and a man who wasn't even a member of parliament.
It's getting like an Agatha Christie novel, where we're trying to work out who is the next person that's going to be bumped off. The difference is, we know who the villains are. You should all be held accountable for what you've done. You should all be fired.
And I have to say, Mr Van Rompuy. 18 months ago when we first met, I was wrong about you. I said you would be the quiet assassin of nation states' democracy, but not anymore, you are rather noisy about it aren't you. You, an unelected man, went to Italy and said, 'This is not the time for elections but the time for actions'. What in God's name gives you the right to say that to the Italian people.
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Video Source: EbS - European Parliament
Music from Velvet Choker (Cornerstone Cues)
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EU Member States:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom
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