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"Madam President, Commissioner, our experiences of recent days involving the Alstom affair remind me a little of the story of the man who, when he was asked why he kept hitting himself on the head with a hammer, replied that it was because it felt so good when it stopped. Admittedly, Mr Monti, your strong-arm tactics enabled you to impose your will on the French Government. Let us admit it: you even made it look ridiculous. That government, which had rejected all the figures on the Friday, then spent the weekend producing a whole lot more, with the support of every bank in the country.
You have won then, but at what price? All Europeans now know that Brussels can sacrifice 120 000 jobs without losing sleep over it, that it can ruin such prestigious industrial sites as Belfort or St-Nazaire, simply in order to get its own back. Mr Pasqua mentioned this a moment ago – the wounded pride of a European Commissioner. You are playing with communities, Mr Monti, simply in order to satisfy unimportant dogmas and your own vanity. You are not a lawyer, Mr Monti. Indeed, to call you a lawyer would be a compliment, since there are many lawyers who are actually working in the interests of families and their inheritance. You are only a bailiff, the man who carries out the process of seizing this social market economy, which can best be summed up as follows: the market is economising on society.
Mr Monti, we, the people of France, already have you to thank for the fact that Péchinet was abandoned. You did not allow us to buy back Alcan, even though you could have done so. We might have had you to thank for the ruin of Schneider and of Legrand. Do you not sometimes think that you are to European industry what Torquemada was to the Catholic religion? In other words, you are playing the grand inquisitor in hunting down state aids just as the good Torquemada, if I may put it this way, hunted down heresy, sodomy and to some extent, let us admit it, Jews."@en1
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