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"Mr President, the big question facing EU leaders tomorrow is whether they are up to the task of saving European achievements in the common currency and free-movement zone. ‘More Europe’ is not the answer to everything, but on key issues like these we do need strengthened ability for European decision-making. I welcome President Barroso’s much tougher statement today than in our debate on Schengen and migration in May. He should then have read the riot act to Italy and France in the way that Manfred Weber of the PPE did earlier in this debate.
In an excellent article published in the Financial Times yesterday, Mario Monti deplored both the excessive deference to big Member States and the ‘culture of politeness’ in the Council, which meant that Member States refused to call each other to account for failings. I would rather more crudely call it: ‘I will scratch your back if you scratch mine’. This was disastrous over the issue of Greece’s fraudulent statistics. We need EU-level powers of decision and action on major issues, but we also need the honesty without which mutual trust is impossible."@en1
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