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"Mr President, the situation is just as one journalist has described it. We not only have a crisis in the European Union; we also have a crisis in our crisis management or, you could almost say, a crisis in our lack of crisis management. This is a crucial problem. Whenever a summit is held, or at least a summit between Mr Sarkozy and Ms Merkel, the message which comes out is that the markets will now be reassured. When we adopted the six-pack here in Parliament, it was said that the markets would be reassured. Nothing has happened. We will not be able to bring an end to the crisis without economic growth.
Mr Barroso, you have put forward some proposals today and that is a good thing. We will take a careful look at them. I hope that they go further than the suggestions recently made by some Conservative and Liberal prime ministers. We are very much in favour of completing the internal market, but that alone will not generate the necessary growth within the European Union. We need an appropriate concept.
I would like to make a serious point. Mr Daul is now speaking to his colleague and he is fully entitled to do so. Mr Daul has mentioned Bratislava. What sort of a situation do we currently have in Europe? A government is formed in the full knowledge that some of the coalition partners think and act in an anti-European way. Then, when a crisis occurs, the Social Democrats have to step in to help the government out of it. That is exactly how it is, Mr Ferber. The situation is just the same in the Netherlands. Now a new government is being established in Latvia, where precisely the same thing is happening, because the Latvian Conservatives are saying that they would rather join together with anti-European, right-wing extremists than with voters of Russian origin, who are seen by this new party and the new coalition party as not being true Latvians.
Mr Verhofstadt and Mr Daul, this is not just about an integrated Europe. It is also about finally having national governments which take a pro-European approach and not governments which come to power and fail when it comes to acting along European lines and then find that they have to turn to the Social Democrats. That is not a proper concept for Europe. We need both things. We need a strong European Union and we also need national governments which think in a European way. That is also important."@en1
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