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"Mr President, I see that Mr Watson is not present in the House, and that is something I regret. I must clearly dissociate myself from Mr Watson’s criticism of Mr Juncker, President of the European Union. It is not of course Mr Juncker’s fault that France now has a government so unpopular that it is in no position to convince the French population to vote in favour of the Treaty. The truth is, of course, that Mr Juncker himself, via the European Council held in March of this year, has ensured that the rest of us are in a position to explain to the French population that we now have a sensibly designed Stability and Growth Pact, that the balances in the Lisbon process have been retained and that we are now in a position to tackle the next step, as pointed out by Mr Almunia, Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner, who said that, by using the two instruments, together with macroeconomic initiatives, we are in actual fact in a position to create more, and new, jobs in Europe.
I should like to say to Mr Watson, to the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats and to others, irrespective of whether or not they are present in the House, that what is at issue here is a responsibility shared by them and ourselves, as well as by the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, by the whole of the Commission and by Mr Juncker and the Council. We must show the French population that this European Union has one main task right now, and that is to help create more, new and better jobs. France cannot create more, new and better jobs alone. France and the French people need a new Constitutional Treaty, and this new European structure, together with the political approach now set out by the March European Council and, hopefully, continued by the June European Council, provide us with some sound arguments for making further progress with our work on Europe. Europe is not a matter of daily spectacle and major revolutions. It is a matter of hard, sensible and purposeful work, and that is something on which I should like to compliment Mr Juncker today."@en1
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