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"Mr President, we are living through difficult times and I want here to express the profound sadness that I feel and that is felt by all those, in the European Union and in the world, who are committed to the project of a political Europe. Europe is in crisis. Our Europe is in crisis, the Europe that we wanted and that we built.
Of course, we all know that internal political issues had a significant influence on the French and Dutch results. We must, however, also have the courage to acknowledge that it is also a particular vision for Europe that has been rejected. For years, our people have had the feeling that Europe was being built without involving them, that they had no part at all in the decisions, often important decisions, that were being made on their behalf. Europe seemed to them foreign and distant. We are all, collectively, responsible for that. Our people also had the feeling that Europe was a project that was out of control, whose identity and whose boundaries were not defined. This feeling of uncertainty caused them to react with fear and rejection. Europe, then, has not fulfilled, and has not known how to fulfil, its protective role. It has not produced any answers to the question of globalisation, the difficult economic context that increasingly undermines our people’s support for the European idea.
Today, the European project is not sufficiently clear or understandable. We have a major crisis of confidence and, in order to respond to it, European institutions must show that they are equal to the challenge. Their response cannot, and must not be, purely judicial. It must, first of all, be political, and, whatever might be the outcome of the ratification process, it is essential that the next European Council outlines the prospects and produces answers to the expectations of our fellow citizens. They very much expect democracy and transparency, they expect a clearly defined Europe and they expect a Union that establishes a genuine economic and social system of government. This is the only way to stimulate growth, employment and cohesion. We must act now. The matter is urgent."@en1
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