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"Madam President, today is Europe Day and it reminds us of the objectives on which the European Union must be based: a deepening of the European institutions and a common economic policy which, in our opinion, will set socially fair prosperity and viability as its priorities. However, the agreement on the euro is fundamentally a move in the wrong direction, as it does no more than impose the traditional economic orthodoxy. Attempts to link the euro to constant cutbacks in the social state and constant pressure on wages and pensions in the long term risk eroding not only political cohesion, but also the European ideal.
In response to this, we Greens propose the agreement on viable prosperity: integrated fiscal convergence, a truly interventionist and ambitious European budget and mainstreaming of the social and environmental dimensions. That is why we want to pave the way to move in a different direction.
However, no one is entitled to take life-changing decisions without consulting the public. The only solution is fundamental dialogue with and direct recourse to the public. The intransigence, in the past, of those who handled the European Constitution prevented us from institutionalising European referenda. However, we can find alternative solutions, provided that we have the political will. We owe it to Europe and its future."@en1
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