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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, I address you, Mr Barroso, because I welcomed your speech this morning in which you revived Europe’s great project.
We have at last heard the Commission raise its voice loudly in this House in order to revive politics and to secure the Union's due role on the international stage. This is the Commission that we want and that Europeans want too. It is a Commission that is shaking off the burden of bureaucracy, which is mainly to blame for the people of Europe’s estrangement from the institutions.
Mr Barroso, I agree with you. If we give up in the face of difficulty and if we allow ourselves to become overwhelmed by pessimism, then we will not achieve any objective whatsoever. Politics must not fail the great challenge of building a Europe that is aware of the role it must carry out on the international stage, that is to say, a Europe that exports peace, a Europe that is capable of taking a leading role in the Mediterranean, in the Middle East, in the Balkans and in the fight against terrorism and against counterfeiting, a Europe of strong transatlantic relations.
That is why the constitutional process needs to be concluded. The first six months of next year are crucially important. We support the German Presidency in preparing – as the Austrian Presidency has already done and I am sure Finland will do too – a series of political initiatives for 2007 involving the 450 million Europeans that are all too often forgotten about. Parliament must, and I am sure that it will, play its part as leader.
The Romans used to say
nothing is difficult for those who want it. We want a political Europe, a Europe of values, a Europe of the people, a Europe of subsidiarity, a Europe of solidarity and a Europe of freedom. Mr President, we cannot allow ourselves to fail this challenge."@en1
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