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"Madam President, Mr Juncker, ladies and gentlemen, there are few politicians who succeed in presenting European integration, sacrifices included, among the positive objectives of politics, in founding real agreement on hopes, and not on fears, and in making it understood that new global concerns can only be addressed at European level.
I should like to thank Mr Juncker for his sincere efforts and the European passion that he has demonstrated. The applause of this House has shown that, among the cries of the Eurosceptics and the silence of the extreme pro-Europeans, we have encountered in you political intelligence and the vision of the greatest pro-Europeans. We would also like it if the other leaders of the Community institutions demonstrated the same courage and leadership in future. Let us remember, however, that a defeat is only a defeat when we accept it, and we must not accept it.
We are faced with a difficult crisis, the most difficult for many years: first of all the referendum, and today the failed agreement. A Pandora’s box has been opened, exposing different visions of Europe. I should like to point out to all those debating the costs of Europe that, if we do not resolve the crisis soon, as the Cecchin report said almost 20 years ago, we will be talking about the costs of non-Europe, and the costs of non-Europe are higher than the costs of Europe.
The contradiction between the tasks that we would like to give to Europe – in terms of global order, the economy and research – and the negotiations on the budget that Mr Juncker has outlined to us is therefore unsustainable. There will no longer be development or a social model if the Euro group does not address the issue of common economic policy alongside that of monetary policy. There will no longer be a Europe in the global disorder, if this Parliament and the countries ready to do so do not open a debate on enhanced cooperation on foreign policy and common security.
This crisis will not be short-lived. The electoral calendar in Germany, in France and also in Italy, without mentioning others, does not help us. Time for reflection, however, ladies and gentlemen, cannot, and must not, become a Mexican siesta. I am addressing the President of Parliament and all of us: the referenda and the crisis involve us and affect us, but they have never questioned the work carried out by this Parliament in the constitutional triangle. In difficult times, our Parliament has been able to launch ideas and summon the European spirit. After years in which discussion has taken place on Europe for the people, it has to be us who must learn to communicate with the people.
I should like to conclude by saying that this Parliament, always orderly, always working according to the rules and the schedule, must also demonstrate that it will not carry on with business as usual, and that we have understood both the unease of the people and the unsatisfactory responses of many governments. We will try to remember that the Commission will certainly be the custodian of the treaties, but that we are the representatives of the European people."@en1
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