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"Mr President, I have to tell you that this Presidency has failed us in a fundamental way as, instead of being committed to a Europe of peoples and citizens, as we had hoped, it has carried on being committed to a Europe of states and markets.
We did not expect results – after all, it is not your fault in particular, but that of the system – but we did expect leadership. You demonstrated that, for example – and here I congratulate you – by promoting the European protection order. However, it would also have been good to see this leadership in other areas: for example, in promoting financial supervision on a European scale, committing to fiscal reform on a European scale, or really committing to a tax on financial transactions. On environmental issues, you continue to avoid acknowledging the importance of energy efficiency, you continue to subsidise coal and you are still not facing up to the destruction of coastlines. SWIFT is not good news to me; it is very bad news.
Finally, with regard to respect for peoples, I have to tell you that in Catalonia, as you know, we are profoundly disappointed. Last week’s ruling has caused many Catalan pro-Europeans like me to seriously reappraise what our role is in this Europe that we would like to build and which we feel a part of, and in this we have found you wanting."@en1
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