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00:00 Mrs. Von der Leyen, you do not ignore 00:03 that the European people are absolutely not interested in this election of the Commissioners.
00:08 And I want to tell you to your face, Mrs. Van der Leyen, that it is your fault. 00:13 By means of quiet arrangements, small partisan calculations and technocratic hypocrisy,
00:18 you have managed to disgust the citizens of European institutions. 00:22 They don’t even want to know any longer who will be appointed Commissioner today nor why.
00:27 They know in advance that these Commissioners will be in your image. 00:31 In the image of what you have turned Europe into over the last five years.
00:34 A suffocating, dangerous, sclerotic Europe. 00:37 I want to tell these millions of voters that for the next five years,
00:40 I will not allow you act as you please. 00:43 You will not turn our continent into a space without interest and without soul,
00:48 where your technocratic whims make the law and dictate morality. 00:51 With all those in this Assembly who are attached to truth and freedom, we will break
00:56 the silence that reigns in your institution. 00:59 You will probably win this election, but we will make you lose everything else.
01:03 In the next five years, we will not give you any respite. 01:07 We will let you no longer operate in “catimini” [on the quiet].
01:10 We will direct the spotlight on your actions. 01:13 Europeans must know the truth. They want it, they need it 01:17 and they have the right to it. Thank you.