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"Mr President, it is a fact that economic union did not follow monetary union. However, economic union would possibly mean doing away with different political views and different political factions.
In the present case, the decision taken on Greece in terms of the involvement of the International Monetary Fund was, of course, accepted by the Greek Government, but it raises underlying questions. In a way it signals the fact that the Union itself is unable to address, not the problem of Greece, but similar problems that might arise in the future.
Mr President of the Council, I agree with you, of course, that there is a moral crisis, of that there can be no doubt. There is a crisis of values, which has been uncovered by the global economic crisis. The European Union should take appropriate steps here. The European Commission and the European Council should pass more general decisions in order to prevent the same thing happening again in future.
Of course, the conclusions of the Council in terms of addressing poverty, social solidarity, the knowledge society, research, training and combating climate change are very important. However, we need to look at all this, especially research and competitiveness, in light of the decisions taken in 2000 and in light of the failure of the European Union as regards the Lisbon guidelines, which are obviously a failure on the part of the Member States to apply that policy. At the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, and in China and Japan, the issues of research and the knowledge and information society are rapidly taking centre stage.
In one way, I think that we have taken a step forwards. However, the conclusions of the task force will help us to take definitive, final and purely European decisions, because that it is the only way we can move forward and address any new international crisis."@en1
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