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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero. I confess that as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, I had prepared myself for this debate as if it were a bullfight; however, you have spoken of equality and human rights in such a way that I can now recognise what unites us, not what divides us. You have been a cautious matador; I will be a cautious bull and I will remain in my enclosure.
However, please allow me to return to two extremely tiresome questions on the contribution that you can make to the interpretation of the Treaty of Lisbon’s implementation. You have laid down in your country various policies based on the principle of subsidiarity, thus supporting the identity-related demands of many communities, from the Catalans to the Basques, from the Valencians to the Galicians, and not without controversy.
How do you now intend to defend the principle of subsidiarity in the relationship between the Member States and the European Union, in other words, the Member States’ request to have their own traditions, their own identities, their own values recognised, so that the founding principle of the European Union – ‘United in diversity’ – is affirmed?
My second question concerns the role of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs: after Lisbon, who among yourself, President Van Rompuy and President Barroso, is responsible for explaining to Baroness Ashton that perhaps after 12 days, it is time to get on an aeroplane and fly to Haiti? That it is time that the European Union’s foreign policy had not only a budget but also a face and a human capacity to support, just as the other leaders of international organisations have done? Unless, of course, we are confusing Haiti with Tahiti."@en1
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