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"Mr President, Commissioner Oettinger’s recent proposal for the flags of all heavily indebted countries to be flown at half-mast in the buildings of the EU institutions is disproportionate and unjustified, if not humiliating. Europe is an area of both cohesion and solidarity. It is not an area of exclusion, and it is certainly not an area of stigmatisation.
Portugal is making such a huge effort to resolve its problems that its people are being obliged to make huge sacrifices and, having reached this point, we and the other countries experiencing difficulties need the European institutions to show cohesion, support and solidarity. Portugal is an old nation with a history of crises. It has always overcome them and it will continue to overcome them.
What is more – to conclude, Mr President – if breaking the rules of the euro area stabilisation agreement were a reason to fly flags at half-mast, then no country would be exempt, and Germany would certainly be no exception."@en1
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