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"Mr President, we are talking about the future of Europe. What Europe? The Europe whose borders we do not know? Who here in this House knows the borders of Europe? None of us. What Europe? The Europe which has no foreign policy, but is led back and forth by the Americans? What Europe? The Europe which has no army of its own and has a European army with an American commander-in-chief like ΝΑΤΟ? What Europe? The Europe with no energy policy? Are we conspiring against Putin, who will give us gas, and getting embroiled in the trouble the Americans want in the Gulf so we cannot have cheap oil? What Europe? The Europe without enough democracy? Talk to me about a single electoral system! You have one set of electoral rules, I have another, someone else has another. What Europe? The Europe which cannot have a single referendum because in some countries parliaments are in charge and in others the people?
Consequently, we are not one Europe with a future, because for one country, one nation, one union to have a future, it must know what it is and where it wants to go. Fortunately, however, we received a lesson yesterday: a lesson in patriotism and culture from an Indian, Mr Morales who, of course, escaped the ethnic cleansing we Europeans carried out in his country. It was a big day for Parliament when it heard that passionate patriot."@en1
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