However Martin Schultz, the leader of the Socialist group described Mr Barroso's speech as a "work programme" rather than a state of the union address.
Socialist group leader Hannes Swoboda was speaking during a debate on 15 February 2012 ostensibly on the forthcoming summit of EU leaders, but which focused primarily on the Greek austerity measures.
The referendum committee organising the vote is made up of the Dialectic Society, Politics Society, Labour Club, Scottish Nationalist Association, Liberal Democrats, International Socialist Group, Conservative and Unionist Party and the Feminist Society.
Labour MEP Stephen Hughes, a member of the committee and spokesman for the European Parliament's Socialist group, told the BBC earlier it was "wrong in principle" to opt-out of what he described as a "health and safety law".
The venom against Mr Martin was probably strongest of all in his own Socialist group, which expelled him earlier this year because he had refused to apologise to some female colleagues for allegedly assaulting them as they tried to sign in for a parliamentary session that had been cancelled.
In parliament, the Socialist group continued to stand up for its beliefs, and, in one of the most lively sessions of first minister's questions, four of their number were banned from Holyrood for a month after marching to the front of the chamber brandishing placards and demanding the right to protest at the 2005 G8 summit, in Gleneagles.
Although it had some unsavoury, ultra-nationalist allies, the Socialist People's Party, Montenegro's main opposition group, which is backed by Mr Milosevic, co-operated amicably with international observers to make sure the contest was seen to be fair.
His successor's first task will be to hold together a disparate parliamentary group, divided between left-wingers and moderates, between vestigial socialist centralism and the Quebec contingent's desire for devolution.
The files in question are connected to the recruitment of informants in Germany's neo-Nazi community, including alleged members of the group believed to be behind the immigrant killings, which calls itself the National Socialist Union, or NSU. The agency is attempting to reconstruct the destroyed information from copies held in related files, according to a spokeswoman.
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