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"Ladies and gentlemen, I hope that the government leaders of the various countries of the Union will next week reject the Commission’s proposal for a unified response to the economic crisis. Spending EUR 200 billion of taxpayers’ money centrally on green investments and innovations is no cure for 27 different economies. It is also no cure to increase or cut taxes centrally and to regulate the size of budget deficits and government guarantees. I firmly believe that the Member States must cooperate but that they should determine their own specific measures according to the situation they find themselves in, rather than having them dictated by Brussels.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Council should also refuse to pressure the Member States into completing the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon. It should recognise that the Treaty is not dead because of the Irish. I fear that the Treaty of Lisbon could change the Europe of today into a place of conflict, betrayal and division. This is because it gives the great powers a legal cudgel with which to beat the smaller nations and this can lead only to violence, war and poverty. The Treaty of Lisbon thus threatens the existence of the European Union as an enterprise for freedom, prosperity and peace."@en1
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