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"en.20050112.10.3-195"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, leading EU politicians throughout the EU, and also in this House, have made certain statements and expressed certain opinions that underestimate the role played by the United States in the history of Europe. They also underestimate the importance of that role, both over the past few decades and at present. Such statements and opinions should be regarded as highly irresponsible, because transatlantic cooperation provides us with an opportunity to find common answers to the global threats facing humanity, such as poverty, natural disasters and environmental degradation. It also enables us to work together to combat AIDS and terrorist attacks.
Unfortunately neither the European Union in its present guise nor the super-state outlined in the draft Constitution, with all its bureaucratic red tape, wastefulness and sluggishness, are capable of reacting in an appropriate manner to global challenges of a political or economic nature. The Americans take effective action and have a free market, whilst we have merely a caricature of such things in the shape of the Lisbon strategy. Relations between the European Union and the USA should be characterised not by stereotypes, an unjustified feeling of superiority and a desire to compete at any price, but by political realism, and we should engage in practical transatlantic cooperation instead of becoming mired in pseudo-platitudes."@en1
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