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"Mr President, I am sorry that President Barroso has been summoned by the Belgian authorities. I am sure if he parks his car more carefully in future he will be able to stay until the end of our debates, but no doubt the message will be taken back to him.
I welcome the title of this document: ‘boosting trust through action’. Sometimes you boost trust through action, and sometimes by non-action. Sometimes it is by withdrawing action, by sunset clauses, by reviews, and it is always by checking the small print of the proposals. We do nothing to boost confidence among our electors by having silly stories as we have had in the United Kingdom this week about church organs, and the European Union’s intention under the WEEE Directive to ban church organ repairs and building because of the lead content. That is daft and I hope if there is any threat of that there will be a swift telephone call from the Vatican to say that St Peter’s Basilica will not stand for such nonsense. However, that is the small print.
I believe we should be reconnecting with our constituents, we should relocate that purpose of our European venture and we should communicate it to the public. You do that for example by the next debate on energy, by showing that we are working together in solidarity to face any threats that there may be.
Montesquieu has been quoted. As Dumas wrote, ‘all for one and one for all’: we need the European grid of energy which can resist any attempt to pick off any one of our Member States. It is also about working on health to make sure that we have the collective work done on the flu pandemic preparations. We must take up the Austrian proposal for a diabetes framework; we must work hard on the Commission’s own proposal on mental health. Mrs Wallström will agree with me that we must work hard to convince the public that we can get it right on chemicals and on pollution issues, eco-labelling and all those other things which would make sense to the public. They would see it as value added by the European Union and then we will not have the same problems that some of our Member States had recently in terms of voting in referenda."@en1
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