Strasbourg 18.11.2008
Greens/EFA Co-Presidents Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Monica Frassoni strongly criticised the European Commission of Barroso and McCreevy for its part in the financial crisis. Greens will consider proposing a vote of censure and will oppose the return of Barroso as Commission President in 2009. Cohn-Bendit also raised the possible delay of the EP debate of the climate package in December. "Europe is missing a chance to be at the avant-garde of climate protection", he warned. Monica Frassoni protested against the exclusion of the Greens in the inter-institutional working group on lobbying. Some of the EP nominees "are no champions of trasnaprency", she declared. Audio in French, German and English.
