Farage: Is the euro crisis affecting your credibility, Mr Juncker?

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• European Parliament, Strasbourg - 27 September 2011

• Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy)

• Debate: Question Hour with the President of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker

• Speech Transcript:

Nigel Farage:

Mr Juncker, as President of the Eurogroup, your detachment from reality is almost unbelievable. You're behaving like a political ostrich, pretending none of it is happening.

You've just told us just a few moments ago that Greece fundamentally has no problems because she's a member of the eurozone. It's just deluded.

And you wrote recently, that the euro's thirteen-year history is a success story. Well, it's a very odd kind of success, isn't it? And actually, saying that beggars belief and I think hardly makes you credible.

I think it's about time that you and others in this room woke up to the fact that we are inflicting misery on millions of people; through unemployment, through poverty, through a lack of democracy, and that it's an error to try and keeping countries trapped inside the euro prison.

The recent proposal is that Greece should write down her debt by 50% and remain a member of the eurozone. Surely, Mr Juncker if that happenes the same would happen to Portugal and Ireland too.

Do you think it's possible for any member state of the euro to write down their debts and stay a member of the euro?


Jean Claude Juncker:

Mr President, I didn't say that Greece has no problems, I didn't say that. I did say that although Greece is a member of the euro area, Greece is in deep problems. So don't take it the way round that you can put the question you any way had the intention to put.

Second point. I don't think that it would be wise and useful for the present euro area to take part in all kind of speculation of the nature of those you were mentioning in your question.

The second question was linked to my credibility, as far as I understood. I prefer mine to yours.


Nigel Farage:

Very good, Mr Juncker. Interesting. Well, on this very point of credibility you yourself said back in April that when things become serious you have to lie. That is what you said back in April. And it seems to me that things are pretty serious and that frankly everything you say is a lie. The euro cannot and should not be held together under its current construction and it's about time you admit it, you and all of you in this room: you've got this wrong and countries like Greece need to be set free.


Juncker (through interpreter):

President, you've just quoted a newspaper, which wasn't even British - it's a German newspaper - saying that when things get tough we have to lie.

Perhaps I should actually quote what I said in the language of the newspaper which you've referred to.

The quotation was correct to some extent, but taken out of context.

In Brussels I was speaking to the pan-European Movement - these are people who believe in Europe - we have to speak to them sometimes as well.

In previous years, back in the days when I was a finance minitser, every few months there was talk about valueing or devalueing currencies in the European currency system.

So back then we often used to meet on Sundays for example or just about before the markets closed and at such times it was so difficult for us to tell the truth. However the mistake I made was that by trying to be honest I actually used a form of words which paved the way to your supplimentary question.
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[EUrealitycheck1]

martin schulz looks as if he has seen a ghost while overly clapping so hard at a very weak response from juncker. Schultz has taken the possition of clapping at anything said in opposition to Farage. This is because Farage has the support of the people of Europe and so Schulz tries to discredit Farage at every opportunity, regardless of what has been said.

[DanielHewsonPianist]

The EU is doomed, they can't even speak English! It's bad enough that they lie all the time, but to lie in a foreign language is just unforgivable.

[LiveFreeorDieGuy]

What was Juncker trying to say at the end there? It was so convoluted and confusing.

[revolutionary17]

@idricool to help bring about the end of the world. What is the sign of the commin of the anitchrist?

[revolutionary17]

@DenChaldes dude...come on man haha

[DenChaldes]

I have done this w/a number of costruction companies, just tell your vendors that you are busted and offer them all 30 cents on the dollar and they will pounce on it, They were soaking you already, so 30% is a bonus for them!

[idricool]

Britain is better than Europe. I can't possibly see why the Brits would be interested in joining with trouble making Europeans for a single state or a single currency.

[ScorpioRyoga]

@DanielHewsonPianist So if we spoke English, it would all be over? Bullshit!... And the people there don't lie in a foreign language, they lie in their own language! ... And it's not lying when it's in the name of politics, right? I mean, politics is all about lying, right? As long as we don't have a shared language, a shared culture we can't be a shared union. The only thing we European Union members share, are laws and taxes. Luckely for me, I live in a rather stable country in the EU

[MultiAlpha111]

@oblivionsdelightful If the Brits think they are NOT in Europe, why they joined EU in the first place? and what is this Mr English Smug doing in EU meeting?

[oblivionsdelightful]

Every nation should be free and independant.

The European union is such an obvious example of global cartel control.

Every nation should run itself!

[oblivionsdelightful]

@MultiAlpha111

Who is to say that Britain is "in europe"

It's a free nation if it wishes to be!

It is not mandated at all to be a part of a bigger group if it's people's choose not to be so!