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"Mr President, if I have understood President Prodi correctly, Europe, by remaining a political dwarf, will eventually lose its status as an economic giant. I personally do not dream of Europe as a great power in world affairs, becoming policeman and teacher to the rest of the world. I dream of a world governed by international law, based on cooperation between all States, large and small.
Europe is currently experiencing a few problems. Nonetheless, thanks to Community cooperation, our Europe is certainly the fairest, most egalitarian society in the world. Our ambition should be to eliminate the last inequalities in Europe, enabling every individual to work and live decently. To do so, we need to share: share within the Union, share with the new Member States, share with developing countries.
Politically, our Union must be able to speak with one voice. This means that the most original institution of the Union, the Commission, must represent all the Member States. The Commission must remain the driving force, with which each citizen must be able to identify. This politically more united Europe, however, is not a goal in itself. The aim of political action is to satisfy the economic, social, environmental and cultural needs of our citizens.
The Convention has devoted far too much attention to the institutional architecture, which will serve no purpose if we do not provide ourselves with the political means to achieve sustainable development and economic growth in order to ensure full employment. Currently, the European Central Bank’s interpretation of Article 105(1) of the Treaty is too restrictive, limited to the sole objective of combating inflation. Although stability is necessary, the fight against deflation and for growth is equally essential. Hence the need to specify the ECB’s mission as follows: ‘the main objective of the European System of Central Banks is to maintain price stability. While combating inflation and deflation, the ESCB should support the other economic and social policies of the Union’. This clarification of the mission of monetary policy is vital if Europe does not want to suffocate in formal stability, which, ultimately, is unproductive.
I shall end, Mr President, by thanking Greece for an exceptional presidency. This shows, once again, that the smaller countries generally accomplish a better presidency than the larger, more conceited countries, which, out of personal vanity, want to abolish rotating presidencies."@en1
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