“Common sense has prevailed”
EPP Group press release
Maltese Commissioner Tonio Borg: common sense has prevailed. Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group
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“We welcome the positive result of today’s vote on the nomination of Tonio Borg as the new European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy. We put our trust in his commitment to be at the service of European citizens”, said Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group.
“His professional record, his convincing presentation during the European Parliament’s hearing and his personal engagement qualify him to take up such an important post. I am happy that common sense has prevailed over the double standards of those who used ideological narrow-mindedness to attack the candidate”, he added.
“This is a victory of reason over intolerance and ideological partisanship. Tonio Borg’s professional competences and his commitment to European values is decisive for us. Tonio Borg should now get to work as soon as possible”, said Richard Seeber MEP, EPP Group Co-Coordinator in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament.
“Today’s vote is a victory for the freedom of opinion and a defeat for all those who want to dictate what they think is moral correctness”, said Peter Liese MEP, who is also an EPP Group Co-Coordinator in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee.
The EPP Group believes that in these difficult times, it is crucial to have strong European Institutions. By approving Tonio Borg as the new European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, the European Parliament, with the leading role of the EPP Group, has proved today that it lives up to this standard.
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The author is right, I hate political correctness and the so called moral correctness disease. I called them as I see them and have no regrets.
Thanks God we didn’t have a second Buttiglione. I am sure that with Tonio Borg we will not have a second prisoner in Brussels.
Lil dik il-minoranza ta’ ipokriti Ewropej li mohhom biex akkost ta’ kollox jimponu in-nuqqas ta’ tolleranza u valuri taghhom fuq haddiehor f’ isem il-liberta , demokrazija u id-drittijiet umani – hudu go fikom!
I agree with you 100%.
Anzi: Lil dik il-minoranza ta’ ipokriti MALTIN li mohhom biex akkost ta’ kollox jimponu in-nuqqas ta’ tolleranza u valuri taghhom fuq haddiehor f’ isem il-liberta , demokrazija u id-drittijiet umani – hudu go fikom!
Thank God there are reasonable people in the EU Parliament. The Greens and Liberals are an intolerable groups. They are as dangerous as the communists.