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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, I believe, Mr Barroso, that, during next Friday's Summit, you must go against what was claimed in Klosterneuburg and argue that the problem is not one of extending the period of reflection on the institutional issue, but rather of making swift progress both in improving and ratifying the European Constitution and regarding policies capable of improving Europe’s image among Europeans.
In fact, if the two countries that failed to ratify the Constitution did so for reasons quite different to those regarding the constitutional text, then it is really a question of moving more quickly on practical policies capable of changing Europe’s image for the better. In order to do this, however, we need to go beyond the period of reflection on the institutional issue as quickly as possible.
The constraints that we come up against in implementing the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world are, in fact, mainly due to the intergovernmental, rather than Community, approach. There can be no single currency without common economic and social policies and without a genuine form of socio-economic governance.
We must therefore clearly state that social and economic problems are resolved by a form of institution building that is in keeping with the Community approach. If we do not want to destroy Europe, then we must state, as Mr Schulz did, that Europe needs the Constitution immediately."@en1
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