The heroic, the ugly and the milestone debates of 2010 boiled down for you into just three minutes.

Zapping 2010: Defining moments of a year hit by the crisis

we said to Mr Barroso,  'I love you... me neither,

and anyway we don't believe you,  but we're going to vote for you.'

Our continent has a real debt towards Haiti,

a duty of reparation after so many years  of domination and looting.

The failure of Copenhagen must not  be a reason for reducing our ambitions.

That's what global warming is all about.  We must get used to freezing temperatures.

isn't up to tackling the economic crisis.  Shut up!

Women are the ones who have suffered  most under the economic and social crisis.

but they are the first to lose their jobs.

This report once again repeats all  the lamentations and broad generalities

If ridicule killed, certain members of the  Women's Committee wouldn't still be here.

If the US administration  proposed to the US Congress

to transfer in bulk bank data  of American citizens to a foreign power,

we all know what the US Congress  would say, don't we?

The 2020 strategy doesn't even mention  the harmonisation of corporation tax.

Perhaps you left it in a drawer.  I invite you to look at that more closely.

You don't get rid of a fever  by breaking the thermometer.

Does it need any more to be said  to prove the huge conflict of interest

that there would be if countries  effectively rated their own debt?

In less than 10 years, the Union has lost  3.5 million farming jobs. It's a massacre.

...because you all consent to the  fundamental direction of an economic policy

that punishes workers and pensioners  who are not responsible for the crisis.

We have to choose here between  defending public health and consumers

They will monitor banks,  securities and the markets.

This empty chair, this empty seat that  stands here next to me, is also a symbol

and also shows how important this prize is,  how necessary it still remains.