Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-02-24-Speech-3-049"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-02-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU 2020 - Follow-up of the informal European Council of 11 February 2010 (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100224.13.3-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-02-24-Speech-3-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2009-07-14--2011-12-05)3 member; NA (2009-07-14--2011-11-08)3 member; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CONT (2009-07-16--2011-11-08)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2011-11-08)3
lpv:translated text	"First of all, allow me to state calmly the fact that we are conducting this debate in this Chamber, in Brussels, in Belgium. In the current economic context, we could describe the country of Belgium as the Greece of the North Sea without any exaggeration whatsoever because this country, Belgium, has, after Greece and Italy, the largest government debt in percentage terms in the whole of Europe. Fundamentally, we are a sick country in Europe and, if I can put it this way, that is in no way a credit to one of the previous speakers, Mr Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium. When it comes to fraud and artificially inflating the budget, he could even teach the Greeks a thing or two! However, let us not get too worked up about that. In particular, let us not claim that we will be able to avert the crisis by running up a higher government debt, the infamous Verhofstadt proposal for a European government loan, which is a bill that somebody will have to foot sooner or later. On the contrary, we have seen, time and again, that it is European decisions that have led us into the crisis, European decisions to throw the Maastricht criteria and the Stability and Growth Pact out of the window all for the sake of appearances, because Europe had to be seen to move forward. It is also that same Eurocrat obstinacy which is now ramming Turkey’s accession strategy down our throats. The economic and geographical reality must now be pushed to one side and European citizens have to pay through the nose for the potential accession of a country which is not even European. The solution is not ‘more Europe’. The solution is national responsibility and the obligation of individual Member States to cut their coats according to their cloth."@en1
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