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Hoje no DN, como ontem no Público ou no Expresso, muitos colunistas fazem elogios rasgados ao discurso de Blair. No dia seguinte à sua presença no Parlamento Europeu, publiquei aqui o link para o discurso completo de Blair, para quem não o tivesse visto ou para quem, não o tendo visto na totalidade, formasse o seu juízo. Escusado será dizer que há quem, ao contrário de mim, avalia Blair e sua orientação política como positivas, o que até posso compreender. Já tenho mais dificuldades em entender como é que, perante a vacuidade total de medidas concretas no seu discurso no PE, alguém possa gabar-lhe as propostas ou as ideias, porque pura e simplesmente elas não existiram. Blair fez um discurso verbalmente empolgante (pelo menos para muitos eurodeputados) mas de conteúdo nulo. E, de novo, desafio a que o leiam na íntegra e que indiquem claramente onde é que Blair aponta como concretizar propostas, executar projectos ou agilizar medidas. Não aponta e lamento que alguns façam passar a imagem oposta. Enfim, para quem quiser ler outra opinião, aconselho a de Christopher Booker. Um destaque:
Tony Blair, in his two pronouncements last week on the future of "Europe", made just enough of the right noises to convince the more gullible sections of the media that he might be about to mastermind some miraculous transformation of the EU. He talked about the need to hear the people of Europe blowing their trumpets outside the city walls. He talked of the need for "leadership", and how the EU needed to be "modernised", its economies deregulated, the Common Agricultural Policy reformed. If all this happened, he might even be prepared to renegotiate the British rebate.
But examine his speeches in Westminster and Brussels more closely and they include not a single proposal as to how any of these wonders might be achieved.
The financial arrangements for the CAP, as President Chirac reminds him, are set in stone for another eight years. And, as a Brussels official was last week quoted as saying, the agriculture which the CAP sustains is viewed as "the very fabric of European civilisation, a rampart against decline, the rural exodus, mushrooming urban sprawl, shanty towns, crime, violence, drugs".
(…)It is all very well for Mr Blair to talk airily about reforming the CAP. It was devised in the 1960s by France, with the specific aim of protecting French farmers, so that the rest of Europe could pay for their surpluses twice - first by subsidy, and then as imports. Despite at least three "reforms" of the CAP since, that principle remains sacrosanct. Tony Blair will be long gone before the CAP is abandoned.
Enfim, o desespero é tal que, um bom orador, ainda que sem sustentabilidade alguma, é aclamado Salvador. Pior: nada perceberam da recusa dos europeus…como se alguma vez estes, mesmo que Blair tivesse tal crédito, acreditariam num ímpeto britânico…pobre Europa, esta…
Tony Blair, in his two pronouncements last week on the future of "Europe", made just enough of the right noises to convince the more gullible sections of the media that he might be about to mastermind some miraculous transformation of the EU. He talked about the need to hear the people of Europe blowing their trumpets outside the city walls. He talked of the need for "leadership", and how the EU needed to be "modernised", its economies deregulated, the Common Agricultural Policy reformed. If all this happened, he might even be prepared to renegotiate the British rebate.
But examine his speeches in Westminster and Brussels more closely and they include not a single proposal as to how any of these wonders might be achieved.
The financial arrangements for the CAP, as President Chirac reminds him, are set in stone for another eight years. And, as a Brussels official was last week quoted as saying, the agriculture which the CAP sustains is viewed as "the very fabric of European civilisation, a rampart against decline, the rural exodus, mushrooming urban sprawl, shanty towns, crime, violence, drugs".
(…)It is all very well for Mr Blair to talk airily about reforming the CAP. It was devised in the 1960s by France, with the specific aim of protecting French farmers, so that the rest of Europe could pay for their surpluses twice - first by subsidy, and then as imports. Despite at least three "reforms" of the CAP since, that principle remains sacrosanct. Tony Blair will be long gone before the CAP is abandoned.
Enfim, o desespero é tal que, um bom orador, ainda que sem sustentabilidade alguma, é aclamado Salvador. Pior: nada perceberam da recusa dos europeus…como se alguma vez estes, mesmo que Blair tivesse tal crédito, acreditariam num ímpeto britânico…pobre Europa, esta…
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