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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, at the death of Louis XIV, King of France, the French people showered their devotion on his successor, Louis XV. We too wish to shower our devotion on Mr Trichet and will be voting for him, although there are no more objective reasons for supporting him than there were for feeling devotion in advance for Louis XV. The main reason behind our enthusiasm for Mr Trichet is the lethargy of his predecessor.
Mr Trichet will tell us that, throughout his mandate as vice-president, although it was his task to provide secondary support for the European Union’s objectives – the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives, which are full employment and sustainable development – he personally considered that pursuing the first objective: price stability, would be support enough. Consequently, during the three and a half years of his mandate, whilst achieving the same rate of inflation as the United States, we have done infinitely less well than the Americans in the field of investment and stability.
I hope that Mr Trichet will not say: ‘this could last as long as I do, after me, the deluge’."@en1
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