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"Mr President, firstly, I am extremely pleased to see someone who has always been on our side over the many years of battles in the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, someone who has always stood up for the Community cause and the European cause with us. I have one question to ask him about economic governance. You know that Ms Merkel and Mr Sarkozy have proposed the introduction of a European economic government meeting twice a year. I do not know what your experience as Prime Minister is, Mr Juncker, but I thought it would be at least twice a week that it should meet, or even, if necessary, twice a day, but not twice a year.
So is your position that a European economic government cannot be organised with full-time people actually at the initiative of the European Commission rather than at that of an intergovernmental organisation? What is more, I have heard you say: ‘Yes, the Eurogroup needs to be chaired by a full-time President’. Do you also not think that the Eurogroup could be chaired by the Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, rather than starting to invent other institutional ‘gizmos’, as they are doing now, which will solve nothing, because the financial markets expect a complete economic and fiscal Union. Only in this way, and not with ‘institutional games’, will we overcome the crisis surrounding the euro on the basis of intergovernmentalism, aiming to safeguard the power of EU Member States."@en1
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