Van Rompuy holds Farage in contempt

EU Council President Herman van Rompuy says he holds Nigel Farage in contempt for the tirade against him during the first-ever official appearance of the EU president in the parliament.

Exterior view of the EP , Brussels
00:00'10"Herman Van Rompuy, EU council President, in French, I am glad about the European ambition I found here this afternoon, I am glad about this sense of emergency that I heard this afternoon ; There is only one contribution for which I can only held in content (on Farages calling him a wet rat")
00:00'32"We have taken special measures to save financial institutions, not because we love them but without them there is no economy. We led a smart monetary policy, we've injected liquidity into the economy which was not done 70 years ago. For at least 16 countries we've created despite all the problems a zone of monetary stability, and in the 1930s there were competitive devaluation; We don't have those now. "
00:01'08""We saved our internal market. It is not perfect, we need to deepen it and Mr Monti will make us concrete proposals , but we did not fall into protectionism as in the 30s"
00:01'25""it is thanks to the EU that the G20 was born; We took the initiative to create this embryo of world governance. It is the first time that old and new powers joined to fight the crisis."
00:01'46""We should not always put the EU on the defensive mode; there are also good things that happened"
00:01'56""We need some important reforms at EU and National levels which will include budgetary choices"
00:02'09""If we say we need more in Research and Development, well then we should forecast those in National budgets and in the EU financial perspectives. This requests budgetary choices, another consequence of the Lisbon Strategy is that all that we proposed as objectives are not always regarded as soft ones, it could well be, hard objectives and there will come a difficult time, there is a demand for reform and there is implementation of the reforms"
00:02'56""At EU level people demand hard measures and you go back to your country I see few results from all that so we need a consistent position"
00:03'09""The method is not all . method only without political commitment is worthless"
00:03'19""For the economic strategy , it is very well to hear that we need binding measures yes ok but "The Lisbon treaty on the economic guidelines does not make provisions for that...it does not include penalties or negative measures when its a matter of implementing the guidelines Have a closer look at art121 "
00:03'19""One word on Greece. I believe that the right message was sent , one of responsibility of the Greek Government who has to manage a very difficult situation, one it has inherited"
00:04'14"" If the present measures are not enough to reach a reduction of 4 % of the deficit in 2010 we will take extra measures, we committed to more monitoring not only following initiative of the European Commission but also the ECB and the World monetary Fund expertise; so we have very well defined responsibility, there is also if necessary an element of solidarity"

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[Hrejwaltz]

Man.... everyone can see the Evil on his face.... his intents are so transparent that no one can actually believe this Wet Rat... ¬¬

FARAGE GOGOGO! UKIP GO!

From a Brazilian friend of you all on EU...

[anchorman632]

What a creepy lookin bastard. Looks like a sex offender.

[Mijmerdemijmer]

He's a really wise man. Chosen for he's ability .. not for he's show or big mouth or looks. But what matters in the end? ..

[corusantdefender]

Atleast he can spek MORE LANGUAGES FUCKIN MORON's stupid british idiots.

[bertsterkendries]

What does any of you REALLY know about Van Rompuy??? Right, nothing...

Just like I don't know crap about Farage.

All I know is that Van Rompuy has 10.000 times the decency Farage has, all Farage does is rage like a bull.

And why would he have to be forced to speak English. The european union has 23 official languages and everybody has the right the choose whatever languages he wishes. Van Rompuy choose here for French. And he speaks more languages than 90% off all the trash talkers here...

[camelorwell]

why are there no subtitles?

[apostolavouli]

Fuck you Rompuy, I will drink your blood.

[skifi1]

who are these selfelected bastard in EU council anyway who is monitoring nd auditing them who are they responsible to??!!!!



[stickystink]

@anchorman632 Seriously.... u should apologise to sex offenders

[sedeslav]

Rompuy is Mr. Zero.

[turnipfield]

@MrRedPajamas The man is a total puppet put in place by Barroso. One can almost see the strings moving his lips! And he gets paid a huge amount - for helping to destroy Europe. What a complete total utter plonker! History will replay his mindless gabbling - and laugh hysterically at such nonsense. btw Doesn't he look like Mr Burns in The Simpsons.