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"Along with a number of MEPs, I belong to the generation which was graduating and starting work when a storm of protest, partly fuelled in the United States, but with a definite European identity, broke out. Tradition associates it with the magical year of 1968, but anti-establishment activity had been brewing for a number of years and was to carry on for a few more years still. It was a very exciting time, brimming with ideas, new concepts and action. I would not have missed it for the world.
However, I also remember my embarrassment on behalf of those who were as old as I am now and claimed to be on our side, to understand us completely and to know exactly where we were coming from. I will therefore not make the same mistake, but what I would say, on behalf of the presidency and on my own behalf, is that anti-establishment activity in itself is a good thing. The
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that may be, can never remain fruitful for long, and history is never-ending, whatever thoughts Marx, Engels and much later, Fukuyama may have had on the matter.
In my capacity as President-in-Office of the Council, I will not hazard an ideological debate. However, I do want to underline that the management and organisation of globalisation is precisely the task of the international, even global, organisations, and that the European Union is a excellent example of such organisation. It is therefore paradoxical for the protesters to fight precisely those institutions and organisations. The World Trade Organisation, for example, does not organise the economic and commercial anarchy, as some seem to think. It organises and regulates trade, it determines rules which apply universally and it operates by consensus of all affiliated states, which now number over 140."@en1
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