Eppink on Gadaffi in Strasbourg

Derk Jan Eppink, one minute. Thank you Mr President, we all agree that Mr Gaddafi was a murderer, and I agree with Mr Schulz. And then I just wonder why, over the past years, our EU leaders were trying to charm him. Here I've got a picture of Mr Van Rompuy, just in his office and already in the wrong company; and here we have Mr Verhofstadt receiving the dictator with military honour, which he certainly likes. And we have Mr Berlusconi, Mr Cohn-Bendit. We know that Mr Berlusconi likes kissing, but he's kissing entirely the wrong person! Now, also, I've got here, Mrs Ashton, I've got Tony Blair, your former boss, kissing the dictator. Now, my point is: I agree that you have to meet people nastier than yourself, but you don't have to kiss them. You don't have to hug them. You don't have to charm them. And you have been feeding the monster that people now are fighting, and that's why they are getting killed. So I'm saying to all these EU leaders having kissed and hugged Gaddafi, shame on you! euroseptik.cz :: svobodni.cz :: reformy.cz