Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-19-Speech-2-199"
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"We sit here as a House representing 27 nations. Our differences currently divide as a consequence of our approach to Europe and our politics that shape that approach. Our great challenge is not a new Treaty which attempts to bind us by force but the spirit in our approach to the future of Europe – a Europe where our children and their children will succeed as they compete with the emerging powers of the 21st century.
I look forward to a Europe in which future generations will not only be able to travel freely but will not be discriminated against based on which geographic location of Europe they come from, which language they use as their mother tongue, or how their last name is spelled.
Jargon like ‘solidarity’, cohesion, and integration is commonplace within our institutions – words that are empty in a Europe divided between the old and the new Member States, between those Member States that seek individual gains in bilateral agreements with third countries and those Member States that are impaired by those same third countries. The European Union is lost today between bilateral agreements, conformity, and a diversity which should be our asset, not a hindrance."@en1
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