Ashton Draws Mixed Reactions at European Parliament

Catherine Ashton. Vice-President and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on Monday drew a mixed response from the different parties in the European Parliament after she testified at the Foreign Affairs Committee.




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00:00'29"Catherine ASHTON, High Representative for CFSP and European Commission Vice President designate, in English, I will be accountable to this House where ever the Treaty has provided for it"
00:00'33"Members of this House I see this as a unique moment in Europe's journey. Above all, a moment of opportunity. We need to be ambitious and results oriented"
00:00'44"I do accept that this is important that in the course of their work, those Senior diplomats, as they will be, are able to come to the Parliament. So we need a further conversation about that, I am not convinced about the idea of hearings
00:00'59""how we develop our relations with NATO are very important.....In terms of a single command structure, I remain to be convinced on that"
00:01'25"in terms of Afghanistan, I was present when General Mc Crystal presented his ideas at the meeting with NATO and you would know what the President of the US has already said in that context; the critical area for us is to bring on the ground what we do more effectively and see how best we can support the population centred approach"
00:01'53""it is absolutely vital that we get progress on the Middle East to end up with the two States that exist, and the State of Israel has the right to exist securely and safely in the Middle East as does the Palestinian"
00:02'11"" I think it is highly regrettable that IRAN has not accepted the agreement that was proposed by the atomic energy agency"
00:02'21"" There are international rules that we have and if the country wants to be treated, as I believe, its history, its geography, its people deserve to be treated, then it has to work with us"
00:02'34"Across the world on human rights issues there are different approaches that can be more effective in particular countries and I what I was trying to do is to say that I want to differentiate different approaches to different countries"
00:02'51""Who ever speaks, it should be the same voice, 27 foreign ministers, the European Commission , the president of the Council, the President of the Commission, Members of this house and me, its one voice, its Europe".
00:03'06"Russia, we have to have strong relations with, secondly we have to have a clear energy strategy that will also allow us to diversify energy needs in order to be aware that we currently I think rely on Russia for 50% of needs , but if you project forward that will rise potentially to 70%"
00:03'26"(question asked by MEP MAURO on the seat for the EU on the UN Security Council) " Mr MAURO the answer to that question is that I don't know, and the reason is that this is not in the 5 weeks to Christmas that I have dealt £with this issues, this is not even crossed over into my thinking so I am afraid that you caught me out, well done, on an issue that I don't know about"
00:03'48""In terms of issues like the IRAK war, well we are where we are, I was a British Minister a the time that IRAK war began, I believed that this was the right thing to do based on what I knew at that time,...there we are."
00:04'02""I am not ashamed of who I am and what I have been, when I was a young person I marched because I believe that we should abolished nuclear weapons, you could argue against how I did it, you can't argue against what I was seeking to achieve, and part of what we did is to make sure that we made connections with all the freedom movements across the East? I have never visited Eastern Europe , I thought passionately that we wanted to see a Europe that was free and here we have it, and one of the reasons I want to do this job is to take the values I have held all my life and use them to support all the principles that this House is founded upon"

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[Smulan45]

Yet another person the people didn´t elect.

Self-appointed and self-righteous. Democracy has lost its meaning.

[AncutaMerkel]

No fucking experience with this ugly looking bucked teeth chipmunk. All she does is shit around and shake hands. Were the fuck were our voting rights for this witch? "I believed it was the right thing to do - the Iraq war" fucking bitch doesn't know the rules. Keep impartial. Ashton should have said something like "I have no comment" or "I do not support the war or I do, its a matter of individual opinion". I want some hot bitch to be EU Foreign Minister someone like Lindsay Lohan

[RussMaxable]

Notice how she did not say state when talking about that other middle east country and had to think about it, that is how well she knows her stuff, who is this women? no wonder the euro is about to collapse, how can you take away the rights of people like this and let all these countries collapse for a false dream, the road to hell is well and truely paved with good intentions here.

[Oldfaithfullyours]

Fuck off back to the CND you Marxist cunt.

[skydome29]

@RedGoblinus witches were usually the more intelligent or healers, or scapegoat. Any of those labels give her too much credit.

[skydome29]

Shes just one big buzzword isn't she? Most of the MEP's say way more in much less time. She's Sarah Palin Anglofied, how is she not booed out of the house?

[skydome29]

She get's paid 27000 euros per week to say "we need to be optimistic and results oriented" How about doing your job and saying "get your damn asses in the parliament and in your seats once in a while". So glad I'm far from this farce of an empire.

[itachiitachi1946]

1)she has the appearance and the inteligence of a cleaning maid that mops the floor

2)who voted her?

3)her salary is 27500 euros per week (!!) and all she does is bla bla bla

4)i wanna slap her

5)put her in jail cause shes a totalitarian fascist piece of shit who doesnt know demokratia and that doesnt respect ppl's freedom

6)i wanna punch her

7)her place is in the kitchen making sandwhiches

8)her teeth r weird and ugly

9)not only her teeth r ugly but her whole face...

10)...and her body also

[FidelAnge]

"wake up world!!! wake up and stop sleeping, wake up Europa!!! wake up and stop blaming! open your eyes, stand up and rise!!"

[megafrasers1]

@Smulan45 we need to end this s**t and bring about the return of power to nation states and an end to this undemocratic totalitarian regime

[gobton]

People forget that the US cabinet is not elected. it is appointed by the presdient