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"Thank you Mr López Garrido, thank you to someone who can pass the message on to the President of the College of Commissioners.
I hope that your words will be followed up with actions and that in June we will see a very different Council from the one that we saw in the spring. This is because your words, which I support from beginning to end, do not reassure me or take away my fears of seeing a Council that is full of apathy, full of doubts, which sometimes even raises questions that really fill us with dread, for example that the targets, our big political, calculated targets, are not advisable and are not even possible.
Thank you, Mr López Garrido, I hope the Spanish Presidency will help to resolve all of these uncertainties, because I am convinced that these will be seen as momentous times in Europe’s history when the time comes. They are very confused times, in which the major challenges are being put on the table as to whether we want more Europe or less Europe.
This is the aim of the Europe 2020 strategy. In 10 years’ time will we be more or less united? Will the victory have been won by those who believe that we must work together to resolve economic and social problems or by those who go back to being satisfied with nationalism and destroying even the fundamental elements that have been built over the last 40 years? Will we be more supportive? Will we be prepared to adopt targets of solidarity with each other, to share more equally, to build more wealth and share it more equally, or will we leave it all in the hands of the markets?
I do not, as some of my colleagues have said, believe that this has happened because there has been a lot of Europe, a lot of regulation or a lot of social justice. On the contrary, it is the lack of Europe, the lack of regulation that has brought the crisis on.
I would therefore like to make two requests, Mr López Garrido: keep the targets of fighting poverty and the targets promoting better education, which are in the Commission’s text but not in the Council’s text, and associate Parliament with the voice of the people, so that the people’s agenda can be Europe’s agenda, rather than it being the agenda of technocrats or of the so-called ‘markets’, which is often the agenda of speculators."@en1
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