Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-07-10-Speech-4-204"
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"Thank you, Mr President. I would like to offer President Sarkozy my best wishes for his work as he takes charge of the Council’s fate for six months. Unfortunately clouds are gathering over the EU’s future: the paradoxical Irish vote (Ireland having become the ‘Celtic Tiger’ that we know thanks to EU funds), the government crisis in Austria, the statements of the Polish President, are all worrying signs. We must find the strength and skill to relaunch a European path that must revive the enthusiasm and emotion of citizens, who still perceive the EU as something distant and rather abstruse. I also take this opportunity to offer a provocation to the President-in-Office: to bring citizens closer to the EU, concrete signals must be sent out. It would be excellent if the French President could start a serious debate on sorting out the issue of Parliament’s two seats: let us concentrate all activities in Brussels and avoid the monthly move to Strasbourg (where the site could be used for other purposes, such as the centre of technological excellence): this ‘trip’ actually represents a huge and unjustified waste of financial and energy resources."@en1
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