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"Mr President, Chancellor, there is no question that six months is not sufficient time to demand that the Chancellor resolve the current crisis in Europe by the end of his mandate.
Nevertheless, six months may be long enough to point out the appropriate direction for this change and rectification that the European Union requires. I am therefore simply going to talk about two urgent issues which I believe are facing the European Union.
Firstly, having heard all of us, Chancellor, you will see that the European Union has no problem with words, since almost all of us are asking for the same thing: more Europe and the incorporation of real problems into the operation of the European Union.
The problem is not one of words, but one of attitudes. Every institution must adjust its attitude again and again when dealing with issues affecting Europeans. When the day comes when the European Parliament does not examine what the President-in-Office of the European Council is doing but rather what the Heads of Government that are not holding the Presidency are doing in the Councils, we shall undoubtedly be dealing with one of the problems of the European Union, which is the lack of tenacity, the lack of constant work on the part of all of the governments, even though they may not be holding the Presidency of the European Council.
Secondly, Chancellor, within a few years, Europeans are going to have to identify and acknowledge the European Union’s political role in relation to the great problems facing us: energy, immigration, terrorism, growth and employment.
At the moment, Europeans do not know what the European Union is doing on any of these issues; they do not evaluate, they do not criticise, they do not judge, because they do not know what the European Union is doing in these areas. We need to do some political work in order to make the public aware of what the European Union and its institutions are doing in these fields. That is the second great urgent issue facing the Union, Chancellor."@en1
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