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Mr President, if it is a trait of the high-born to be grateful, I would like to begin by saying to Mr Bullmann that I, being of the extreme centre, am extremely happy to have reached an agreement, a compromise, with him.
Secondly, as a generic request from both the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, I would now ask the Council to involve the European Parliament in both the definition and the monitoring of the strategies established in Barcelona. As Pablo Neruda said, the work we have to do is like the old wine of my country; it is not produced by one man but by many, and not from one plant but from many.
My third point: the areas of agreement that have been expressed here. I agree with the President-in-Office of the Council that it is absolutely essential to maintain intact and unharmed the dogmas of price stability and budgetary austerity, both for the large countries and for the small ones. We in this Parliament well know how monetary delights and budgetary frugality end: like days of wine and roses. They lead to nothing more than a headache the next morning.
With regard to structural reforms which increase competition, those benches have shown a certain reticence, certain reservations. In the field of the liberalisation of strategic sectors such as transport, electricity, gas, telecommunications or financial services we must not move backwards, even in order to gain momentum.
Fourthly, I also agree with other speakers that we must attach importance to strategic development factors: lifelong education and support for small businesses.
I would say a final word to Mrs Jackson. The National Hydrological Plan is not, as the amendment says, an example of unsustainable development. It is a fine example of sustainable development, because it is a question of taking water from where there is a surplus of it to those places where some days we pray for rain and on others we are moving around in boats following a storm. As she has pointed out very correctly, it is a parliamentary decision by a legitimate parliament following a broad discussion and with the almost unanimous support of the National Water Council, in which all the Autonomous Communities, including the Socialist ones, are represented.
Somebody has been selling false currency in this Parliament. I would ask you to bring them to account and that this false currency be exchanged for a good one, for a genuine one, like the one we now have in the European Union."@en1
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