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"Mr President, Mr President of the European Commission, you have made a good speech today and I would like to congratulate you on it. You have made a good speech, because I believe that you have managed to move people, those of us who are here and those outside of this Parliament who are listening to us. You have argued that we should not allow ourselves to indulge in Euro-pessimism and I believe that you are right.
You have also said something very important: that Europe is not in crisis. It is true. Europe is not in crisis. We must not allow ourselves to believe that. It is also the case, however, that we must make an effort to explain why the Constitutional Treaty is important to people’s lives, because many people take the view that the Constitutional Treaty has not entered into force – which is the case – but nothing has gone wrong as a result; Europe has not fallen into the sea.
Many people are therefore tempted to say that the Constitutional Treaty is not so important, since nothing has gone wrong despite it not having entered into force.
In all of the campaigns that I have taken part in, I have never heard what all of the leaders who have spoken here today have said: the Constitutional Treaty is necessary in order for Europe to function better, in order to provide the people with added value. We must make a huge educational effort to explain to the people what I have previously called ‘the cost of not having a Constitution’: why not having a Constitutional Treaty has a negative impact on their daily lives.
As Mr Rasmussen has said, explaining these things is a tough task; it is a task that requires a great intellectual effort. We must apply our grey matter, in order to explain it to the people through clear and relevant examples, but it is a necessary task.
I believe that Europe requires a huge amount of education today, but it also requires a degree of calm, a degree of political skill, and I believe that this Parliament, which has been a pioneer on many other occasions, through the Resolution by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs that we are going to approve today, indicates that direction. Through a lot of education, I believe that we will be able to rescue the ship of the Constitution, get it back afloat, and ensure that the Constitutional Treaty provides the people with added value."@en1
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