Seanad debates

Thursday, 13 November 2003

Address by Ms Mary Banotti, MEP.

 

The European Parliament will be very different after enlargement and will take time to settle down. I paid some interesting visits to the accession countries, including, for example, Poland which I visited for the first time last September when we examined a number of issues. I also met a very charismatic politician, Mr. Andrzej Lepper, the Jean-Marie Le Pen of Poland, who attached himself to a particular political view as soon as he entered the European Parliament. We do not have an equivalent to Mr. Lepper or Monsieur Le Pen. Some of these politicians whose views appal one are extremely charismatic and speak excellently. I am afraid that having learned how to communicate so effectively, their point of view will gain precedence in their home countries.

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