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"Mr President, Mr Orbán, first I want to thank all the Hungarian teams with whom we have done a good deal of work on economic governance. However, if you have no objection, Mr President, I do not wish to talk to you about that, nor to you, Mr Orbán.
I was enormously struck by the fact that Otto von Habsburg died just as the Hungarian Presidency completed its term. If we think back to what the Austro-Hungarian Empire was at the start of the twentieth century, I see his death as a signal which should make us vigilant. Our Member States and our structures are fragile. All those who fan the flames of nationalism, giving people the belief that it represents the solution for the future, should look at the fate of some past empires, and quite important ones too. Even the Roman Empire was one day engulfed by the storm.
I think that what we are trying to build together by orientating ourselves towards the future is infinitely more important than the narrow conservatism espoused by certain nationalists.
I will finish on a humorous note. Mr Prodi always used to say to those who compared the dictatorship of Brussels with the dictatorship of Moscow that he would like to know the date on which they joined the Soviet Union."@en1
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