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"Mr President, one of the following is true. Either your statements are the result of collusion with individual Member States, in which case we can expect no transparency from the President of the Commission but rather what could be described as a Machiavellian approach to politics, not one advocated by the University of Bologna – if that is the case, tell us more – or else your actions and endeavours resemble those of a Pope informing us that, actually, the virgin birth is just the Church’s little joke. If your intention was to launch a debate, as Mr Watson has suggested, then tell us the whole story, tell us, admit that the European economy’s real problems are not the result of the Pact and its alleged rigidity but are caused by unresolved structural problems, by the inability to reduce current public spending, which serves merely to nourish bloated administrations, by the inability to reform the welfare state, particularly pension systems, to eliminate the excessive rigidity stifling the labour market and enterprise or to progress along the road of privatisation and liberalisation.
It is no coincidence that the countries in the greatest difficulties are precisely those which have been most reluctant to adopt ambitious reform programmes in recent years. This is what we want you to tell us, President Prodi, in this debate or next time you are interviewed."@en1
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