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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let us call to mind our strengths, put our money where our mouth is, do away with the blockages within ourselves, and stop making ourselves ill with worry. Let us fashion a single European policy on Europe rather than several from each nation state!
Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I believe it to be a matter of urgent necessity that you should make the Lisbon objectives concrete and workable. Everyone must know who is to do what and by when; you should see to it that, after every spring summit, every Head of Government makes an official statement in his own country and that the parliaments debate the action plans specific to their own countries and vote on them, that you reinforce the Commission’s prerogatives of monitoring, coordinating and taking initiatives where the Lisbon process is concerned. Let us introduce at European level, in the national governments, and in the national parliaments, a Lisbon Steering Committee with an interdisciplinary approach!
We are not a carbon copy of America. We Europeans do not play off competitiveness against social cohesion, both of which express the European model of the sustainable social market economy.
There is a second point I would like to make about the Constitution. Everyone has signed it. Is that it then? What about a joint publicity campaign by the Council, the Commission, Parliament and the Committee of the Regions? What about a Week of the Constitution, in which all the Member States would ratify it? Why were you so opposed to a Europe-wide referendum? There is more to be done, and more is possible, provided that we have the political will and more determination.
As you have mentioned the Members’ Statute, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, let me tell you that you need only to accept Parliament’s resolution, and then we will have a Members’ Statute, and new rules on expenses. There are some – but in fact only a few – Member States that are engaging in tactical games; put a stop to them!"@en1
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