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"It would be arrogance to attempt to sum up the Copenhagen Summit in two minutes. I will therefore limit myself to a few points. First and foremost, I would like congratulate the Danish Presidency – and these congratulations are not just formal, they come from the heart – on the skill with which it has brought lengthy negotiations to a successful close. Secondly, we are witnessing an historic period of history, the full meaning of which we may not yet have grasped: for the first time in the history of mankind, a union of States is being built on the basis of a project of civilisation and shared values without recourse to military force. This means that we, the European Parliament, and the Council and the Commission, must evaluate very carefully something which President Prodi mentioned, namely the fact that, at this juncture, now Europe has been built, we need to make the rules. The rules of our founding fathers, the rules which were the basis for the development of the European Economic Community, now need very careful revision, revision which I am sure will be achieved by the Convention but which needs a further contribution. I would like to quote a statesman who lived two centuries ago in Italy – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour – who said. ‘We have made Italy, now we must make Italians!’ We have certainly made Europe at Copenhagen – now we have to make Europeans. And to make Europeans we need this large-scale information campaign promoting Europe – which our President mentioned this morning – which has been announced many times but will have to be implemented practically in the coming months, for what is happening here must be by common agreement between all our fellow European citizens."@en1
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