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"Mr President, Mr Alexander, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is facing an identity crisis, a loss of its values and general disillusionment. For the first time in a long while, Europeans are afraid that their children’s standard of living is going to be lower than theirs. How can we react and provide a response to these major worries?
The Hampton Court summit claimed to be a stage in these considerations. I am afraid that it produced very little in the way of concrete results since, even if the questions raised were justified, specifically ‘do one or more European models exist in a globalised world?’, the response given to this question lacks clarity, to say the least.
Europe has been plunged into this crisis because it does not know what it wants. It is divided: for some, the sole aim is to turn it into a commercial area without customs barriers, in short a Europe running behind the train of globalisation with an endlessly expanding Union. Others have a different vision, a political ambition for Europe to be defined by its borders and by its projects, in order to assert itself and to share its humanist values in an unstable world.
French MEPs belonging to the
(UMP), like the vast majority of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, have made a clear choice to fight for the latter vision to prevail, aware of the challenge to which we must rise.
France’s proposals, broadcast throughout the EU by President Chirac on the eve of the summit, have the merit of placing the emphasis on the need both to complete the single market, to promote solidarity between the Member States and to guarantee the emergence of a Europe of grand designs.
In order to contemplate a relaunch of Europe, however, the European Council must first remove a basic obstacle, because, given that almost all of the Member States have reached a common opinion on the financial perspective 2007–2013, on the basis of the negotiations undertaken by the Luxembourg Presidency, they absolutely must reach an agreement by the end of the year. Any other debate would be nothing but guesswork."@en1
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