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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have another contribution to the previous topic.
The date of 17 June 2005 will be recorded in European history as a failure. After a clear signal from the European Parliament, when we approved Böge’s report on the financial perspective by a large majority, we waited anxiously for the result of the summit, hoping for a positive conclusion. It did not happen. One-fifth of the EU25 selfishly broke away, and the enlarged Europe received yet another slap in the face. It happened in spite of the will of the poorer EU10, which were willing to accept a compromise even at the cost of losses for the sake of reaching an agreement.
With the unsuccessful referenda on the Constitutional Treaty and the budget fiasco at the June summit we have, unfortunately, started to build a new European wall between the old and the enlargement parts of the Union. And the word ‘citizen’ has again merely remained on the lips of us, the politicians. Let us not forget, however, that the Chinese train is crashing into Europe with astronomical speed. We have slowed down the European one, or even diverted it at no less than three points on the track. Unless we breathe new life into the Union as soon as possible, we shall have to rename the unfulfilled Lisbon strategy as the ‘European tragedy’."@en1
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