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"Mr President, President Barroso, Commissioner, honourable Members, first of all let me thank you, Mr President, for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Council in this crucial debate. I would like to thank President Barroso for his remarks, and I especially want to emphasise what he said about the need to restore growth in the European Union. This has been reflected in a number of interventions today. The growth agenda is also at the very heart of the Polish Presidency programme, where we are working very closely with the Commission ahead of the October European Council.
Here let me mention two elements: first of all, the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy. It is the EU institutions and the Member States working together in the framework of EU 2020 which will ensure that we emerge stronger from the crisis. Second, the negotiations on the multi-annual financial framework, which we started this autumn. There are, of course, very different opinions on the MFF to be reconciled. Everybody refers to the economic climate that underpins those discussions. In any case we will have to find compromises, and for the Council Presidency there are two elements which are absolutely crucial in those discussions.
First of all, we must have a comprehensive, profound debate on the basis of the proposal from the Commission. Secondly we must find consensus on the idea that the money should be spent on supporting Europe in its search for stable and balanced growth.
Mr President, let me use this opportunity briefly to say that we are looking forward to the very important vote today in Parliament: a very important vote for economic and monetary union and a very important vote for the European Union. This vote on the ‘six pack’ is a milestone on our way out of the debt crisis and towards more fiscal and economic transparency and discipline. This will also mean more power for the Commission, and I am happy that we have found support for these proposals in the Council.
I also want to acknowledge in this process the role that Parliament has played in making sure that the package is coherent and ambitious and the fact that you have shown flexibility and responsibility.
Another example, from the last 48 hours: correlation tables, where we actually enhance the role of the Commission as the guardian of the Treaties. This is also a way of showing that we are transparent in the implementation of European legislation and that the Union works.
Finally, another example from the last twelve hours: a compromise in the trialogue on the external financial instruments. The reason why I mention those three – the six pack, correlation tables and the external financial instruments – is very simple. The message is: the Community method works. The sceptics can be proved wrong, and I address this to Mr Zahradil in particular, because I think people from your party in the Czech Republic and Poland do not read the facts, they just live in a dream that the European Union will crumble. I think you will be proved wrong.
To close, I just want to say that, concerning economic and monetary union, Schengen, foreign and security policy, the single market, energy and all the issues that President Barroso raised today, you can count on an approach by the Presidency which will include more Europe, not less Europe; more support for the Community method rather than intergovernmentalism; and finally, support for ever-closer union and not for ever-looser union. That is the only way to rebuild trust."@en1
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