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"Mr President, I too should like, first of all, to congratulate Parliament. I believe that we have indeed had a serious debate. I recognised that, although we started from different viewpoints, a genuine intellectual effort was nonetheless made to recognise that there is a problem and to analyse it seriously and responsibly. At the close of this debate, however, it is equally clear that there is no magic solution and that all of us recognise the very great complexity of the problem.
The situation may be complex and may be difficult, but we have no choice but to accept a truth, handed down to us through political science from antiquity, and that is caution. I know that, today, we live in a society where, because of media coverage, we are at the mercy of the constant demand for news and urgency. However, we are responsible political men and women and we need to show caution. That too is a great political virtue. That is why we must, perhaps, give ourselves the time and the conditions for a proper analysis, an in-depth analysis, and for a proper debate and a collective solution.
Nonetheless, I think it is possible to draw some conclusions from today’s debate. It was clear to me, and this has been reinforced by the conclusions drawn by the President-in-Office of the Council, that a favourable reception was given to the idea of a more intensive dialogue, both within the European context and within the national context, a dialogue that goes even beyond the political institutions. If we can agree on this principle, the idea that Europe does not utterly disregard the negative results in two countries as important as France and the Netherlands, that Europe listens and that institutions and politicians listen and want to understand what is happening and to come up with solutions is an important one. I think that, on this point, there has been, all things considered, fairly general agreement in favour of this idea. I think I can say that there was also agreement in favour, too, of recognising the responsibility shared by all those involved and the need to work together in order to find a new consensus that will allow Europe to move forward.
There is a third idea which, I believe, is more or less generally accepted, and that is the idea that we must avoid paralysis. We have an institutional problem. Certainly, no one spoke in favour of paralysing the European project, no one said that now, because of what has happened, Europe was going to come to a stop and was not going to continue with the programmes that are in the interests of the people who are our citizens: programmes for growth, employment, security and the fight against crime.
We have to move forward. The people expect definite answers, beyond institutional debate and constitutional discussions. If one accepts that, if one accepts the idea of a refusal to paralyse Europe, if one accepts the idea of a genuine European debate, the idea of recognition of our shared responsibility with a view to a new consensus in Europe, one is entitled to expect the European Council to be able to find this new dynamic consensus, along with a strengthened resolve to advance our common cause. Independently, however, of the new vision for Europe that we need, we must also find specific answers for specific problems.
What, then, is the first real problem that we face? It is the European budget, the need to find a consensus, in a spirit of compromise, on the financial perspective. I believe that would be a very powerful signal for the European Council to send to all Europeans, the signal that Europe goes on. Of course, there are difficulties, but we are, I repeat, capable of overcoming those difficulties."@en1
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