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"Mr President, thank you for this debate. It is useful to take stock of the situation after the summer. One thing should be said from the outset: as Mr Schulz mentioned, the decisions taken this summer seemingly tend towards a eurozone government without democratic legitimacy. That is not a mere detail, and we can discuss it again later. I should like to say a word on the six-pack, for which I am one of the rapporteurs. We are told that we must face up to our responsibilities. Very well. Only, what are our responsibilities? Is it our responsibility to agree to a compromise which is not bad but which contains some real flaws, or is it instead to continue to argue that it is not enough? Personally, I will have a real problem squaring it with my conscience if we continue to condone – as Mr Verhofstadt said – the attitude of governments who want to control how the rules are implemented. When a rule is adopted, it must be implemented under the responsibility of the Commission. That is why we welcomed the six-pack and the reversed qualified majority system that you were proposing. I would like to say a word to Mr Rostowski, who seems fond of French history. When I see the Council’s proposals, I do not think of 1792. I think of what Mr Talleyrand said about migrants in 1820: ‘They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.’ Clearly, some people have learned nothing from the crisis and forgotten nothing of the nonsensical Fouchet Plan of the 1960s. They still believe that governmental cooperation is the way to convince third parties and the markets that Europe exists. That is not how we view things."@en1
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