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Article: Morality versus the PC brigade of Brussels.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2004
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Byline: EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY
WHEN MEPs threw out the European Commission headed by Jacques Santer in 1999 after several of its members were implicated in corruption and cronyism, there were those who heralded a new era of openness and accountability in the EU.
Five years on and Left-wingers in the European Parliament are hoping to vote down a commission once again.
The new team, led by Jose Barroso, is legally unable to take office without a vote of support in the Parliament today and the result is too close to call. But this time, MEPs are acting to punish an upright man for daring to be honest in a city where no one ever looks the facts in ...