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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is a report that is still going down the wrong road of administering heroic treatment to try to keep alive a Constitution that has been rejected by the peoples and then upheld by the great patriots of federalism, such as the Italian Prime Minister, Mr Prodi, who is denying the north of Italy, Padania, internal federalism in terms of taxes so that it can obtain justice from ‘thieving Rome’.
The report before us sidesteps the issue of the criteria for limiting enlargement, which in fact, as Prime Minister Balkenende has rightly pointed out, lies at the heart of the political debate on Europe. Instead of quibbling over these legal subterfuges, Europe should focus on its practical problems and summon its energies to protect production, work and jobs, for instance by responding to the specific, weighty concerns of European industries with facts rather than with vague bureaucratic jargon, as Mr Mandelson has done. Our industries are demanding to be protected against the stop that our ultraliberal trade Commissioner has put on antidumping measures since the beginning of this year.
Our businesses and jobs are suffering on account of these wrong decisions, which have been further aggravated by today’s decision by the European Central Bank to increase minimum lending rates. The decisions made by Brussels are wrong because they slow down our journey towards progress, jobs and the welfare of Europe and are therefore divorced from the deeply-held feelings and opinions of European citizens who pay their taxes partly to maintain Brussels."@en1
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