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"The question is however, if you win, Mr future President, what will you do with that victory? We can always hope. I think the decisive question I would have to ask you is how you can close the great credibility gap between how so many people perceive political Europe and what actually happens here.
We do indeed want a common Europe, but it is not working. You can see that in the electoral turnout. You can see it in the unwillingness to make the necessary financial contributions. I think your central approach should be to go out of your way to say that we are wasting much too much here, that half the expenditure combined with the necessary efficiency could often achieve more and that in the matter of transparency in particular we could learn from the country you so much like to talk about, the US with its Freedom of Information Act; because we learn one thing here very quickly: there is no democracy without transparency, and that is why I hope that after your period of office we will again be able to say: ‘Come on, Portugal!’"@en1
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