Centre-right asks for commissioners with Communist-free past

Centre-right asks for commissioners with Communist-free past (2)

Rahvusvahelised uudised | 19 Nov 2009 | EWR

Valentina Pop

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU commissioner hopefuls will not win the approval of centre-right MEPs if they are considered to have collaborated with repressive Communist regimes or with governments 'tainted by corruption,' the largest group in the European Parliament has indicated.

"The candidate commissioners must under no circumstances have been associated with oppressive regimes and must not have participated in non-democratic governments or political movements, or governments or movements that have been tainted by corruption," a checklist drafted by the European People's Party (EPP) reads.

The EPP holds the largest number of seats in the EU legislature, 288 out of 736. (Note: Estonia’s IRL belongs to EPP. EE)

It is important to know what the positions of commissioner candidates were in the past, when dissidents were put in prison or killed, the conservative deputies believe. "We don't want to reward perpetrators of the Communist regimes," German MEP Manfred Weber said on Wednesday (18 November) at a press briefing.

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http://euobserver.com/9/29017

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!24 Nov 2009 10:02

meie siimuke is in the waddesdon manor outhouse awaiting further instruction
don't worry about suli siim, he'll end up where the money for dirty deeds is flowing ...
http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/
http://www.ohtuleht.ee/galerii...

nugis19 Nov 2009 15:18

Where does that leave meie Siimuke? Our millions-man Kallas is presently Commissioner responsible for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud. And before milking for millions while in Estonian national politics, then heading for the greener paster of the EU he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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