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"Mr President, I am very concerned about what is happening in Greece, because, when reading my mail, I often note that many Greek citizens do not understand what we are doing and that many of your citizens believe that the European Union and the Eurogroup are punishing Greek citizens.
I want our Greek friends to understand that consolidating Greek public finances is essential. I want your citizens to understand that we cannot fight debt with debt. I want the Greeks to understand that they cannot continue like this and that, apart from owing them a historical debt of gratitude, we also understand that we have a current duty to Greece to show our support for the Hellenic Republic, provided that the Greek authorities agree to carry the burden.
As for economic governance or economic government, I repeat that we need to agree the content. In the next few months, I would like the euro area or the EU, as such, to have adopted a programme for economic governance which will introduce the various dimensions of economic government and governance step by step.
When we were preparing for the advent of the single currency, as part of the Maastricht Treaty, we did so in stages. There were three stages in introducing the euro because we were going into an unknown area. Economic government is another area which we do not know all the ins and outs of, and I therefore want us to establish a programme in stages that citizens can understand, that are put together so that governments, national parliaments, Community bodies, including the European Parliament and public opinion, understand the pace at which we are going."@en1
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