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"Madam President, I would like to take this opportunity to credit my fellow Members who have worked with me on this report: George Cutaş, Barbara Matera and Cornelis de Jong. I do not know where Mr de Jong is. There he is, at the back. He has made a few comments which I do not understand, for example, when he says that we want to find a European solution for everything. That is not true. Subsidiarity is the guiding principle here.
If I could clarify the point where Mr de Jong had an issue with economic governance: we want the kind of economic governance that will ensure that everybody who is trying their level best will come out a winner. That is what we want, and not for a number of Member States – the ten which have written us a letter – to be penalised for having made good provisions for the future, for their pensions. I hope that satisfies you, Mr de Jong.
Kartika Liotard is not here, but I am struck that she does not appear to have read the report and, yet, she comments as if she had.
Madam President, I have already thanked my fellow Members Cutaş, Matera and De Jong, but I would also like to thank Frédéric Daerden, Marianne Harkin, Julie Girling and Jean Lambert, who have spoken on behalf of their respective groups, as well as Danuta Jazłowiecka, the shadow rapporteur from my own party, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), for having made this report what it is. I think that we have produced a sound analysis of what needs to be done.
I also know that there are still some very sensitive issues in the report which concern individual Member States. Nevertheless, I hope that we, the Committee, and you, Commissioner Andor, have helped put things on the right track, that we will be able to rally round the White Paper, as well, in this Parliament, and that everyone will also vote in favour of it. It was a tough dossier, but I hope that tomorrow we will be able to say: ‘all’s well that ends well’."@en1
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