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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner Solbes, at the point that we have reached and having 114 seconds available, it would be stupid and distasteful to pretend to analyse, in this ‘voting machine’, the Tremonti report and what has happened. The only thing that we can say to you is that, as far as we are concerned, Mr Tremonti, the situation in Parliament is clear. The communist Members and the left-wing statist social democrat Members back you, they hold you in esteem and they share your way of thinking, and against you are those who represent the stronghold of Mr Berlusconi and all his allies in Europe: the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats and their satellites.
Let us just say at this juncture that you have taught us a lesson in the Italian spirit that you represent. Breaking the rules is the art of this Italian ruling class; breaking them according to the rule of emergencies. Pacts can be respected when those who do not respect them can decide that there are cases of
when they do not have to be respected. We know that you are also a legendary Member of Parliament, even if you were such as a journalist. At the beginning of the nineties you wrote wonderful things about debt forgiveness, about deficit spending. For me – a liberal – a little less so since you even brought ethics into it; you said that debt forgiveness and the way the old ruling classes behaved were not very ethical.
I congratulate you because I believe that you are now a pass-master at playing the old ruling class with such a great technical ability, if I may say so, to talk utter rubbish."@en1
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