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"Mr President, every four months now, at each summit, we see Europe giving itself a pat on the back and indulging in a quarterly self-celebration, whilst the number of demonstrators in the streets of Gothenburg, Nice and Barcelona increases and the people of Europe patently feel more support for the demonstrators than for their leaders who are gathered to hold their fine debates under ever-greater protection as we move from one summit to the next. The reason why the European Union is now wholly opposed to ultra-liberal globalisation is because everyone has realised that it has become globalisation’s main shoehorn, including at the last WTO summit at Doha. Europe – well, what you call Europe – the European institutions, in other words, have essentially become a funnel, which is trying to make the people of Europe approve a rule that is as old as the hills and that is the rule of money. European citizens no longer believe in your Europe which is worn-out, ageing and tired – as the French Prime Minister would say when speaking of his opponent – and the people, in a perfectly healthy response, are in the process of rediscovering their personality in a vote expressing their national identity. Their personality is currently expressed by a vote for the right, since Europe is undoubtedly more of an out-moded internationalist, and so now globalised, idea, and I think that Parliament, like all the European institutions, is severely under-estimating how much Europe’s credibility is harmed. The latest Eurobarometer survey – yes, I will finish in a moment – the results of which, in my view, have not been sufficiently communicated, shows that if the European Union ceased to exist, 50% of Europeans would be indifferent, 28% would be pleased and 21% would be unhappy. And there is the same contentedness, every four months, after each summit, the same satisfaction with all this. I must admit that I am beginning to wonder whether these meetings still have any real purpose."@en1
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