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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I listened with interest to the introduction by the President of the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission, and I have to say that I am not convinced by the conclusions.
I am not convinced by the conclusions of the March European Council, because we are witnessing a decline, among some leading figures of European contemporary history, of the Community ideal and method. It is this that concerns us given what is happening in the world; rather, certain aspects concern us.
The Greek affair is merely an illustration of what Europe ought to be, but is in reality not yet. Therefore, we call on the European Commission, on the Vice-President, who is standing in here for the President, and on the President of the Council, to adopt a strong political initiative, a legislative initiative: the Commission must set the agenda, and the Council must ensure that we do not trail in the wake of governments whose power and incisiveness is too often curbed by imminent electoral issues – yesterday in France and Italy, tomorrow in the United Kingdom and Germany – which paralyse the action of governments.
Your role must be not only that of a facilitator, Mr Van Rompuy, but of a driving force behind this Europe, and we appeal to your democratic and pro-European sensibility to ensure that this new impetus will bring benefits for this Europe. It is no longer enough to set objectives; we need to define instruments. We agree on the objectives, just as we agreed on the Lisbon Strategy.
What are the instruments, though? Do we want to end up with a federal budget – and to call it that – which equates to at least 2% of GDP? Do we want to bring into play Eurobonds, European investments and treasury bonds so that we can politically enhance this Europe, without which we will go nowhere?
In essence, we need to know whether we are succeeding in defining the new Europe and whether we are succeeding in defining – through a new relationship between the European political forces within and outside this Parliament – the real distinction, the real boundary that exists within today’s Europe between conservatives and progressives, between those who want a more politically integrated Europe and those who, instead, want only an enlarged single market."@en1
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