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"Mr President, Prime Minister, needless to say, we thoroughly enjoyed your speech. It was a very proactive speech, a speech of solidarity, a speech on ‘more Europe’ and therefore we expect a lot – not too much, I hope, but a lot – from your Presidency over the coming months. We expect a great deal from your Presidency in at least three different areas, which I consider essential. The first is obviously the debt crisis, the euro crisis and, in particular, the crisis in countries like Greece. Your Finance Minister spoke of improving our plans to support Greece by making a small change to the philosophy, and I believe that in that respect, he is absolutely right. We should give the Greeks more time. Imagining that they will return to a 3% deficit within two years is obviously unrealistic and is, in addition, counter-productive. We need support plans that will not only call for rigour and seriousness. We must help them to reform their economy, and to prepare future investment, and we must give them some time. The second point is the budget. In this fight on own resources, I know you will be on our side; concerning the interparliamentary conference – which I believe to be absolutely necessary – bringing together states, the European Parliament and national parliaments, I would like to hear more from you. And finally, on the issue of European defence, you want to develop this area and you want to implement cooperation. I think you are right. It is now time to improve and perhaps to share our defence goals in order to become more effective. We expect a lot from your Presidency in that regard as well."@en1
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