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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday, we received a delegation of citizens who described themselves as ‘indignant’. Some have come a long way to get to Brussels, even travelling by foot from Iceland.
Being indignant is the exact opposite of cynicism, indifference and resignation. It is a non-violent, transparent way of asking for the current European crisis to be tackled, rewarding the European institutions for being assertive and playing a leading role rather than being at the mercy of national governments, but, above all, it is a way of tackling this crisis with tools involving the real participation of the people.
The European Union will have to take difficult, even unpopular decisions. Yesterday’s meeting was short but significant, because it showed that we need to exploit this crisis in order to rebel against the tribal fragmentation of Europe, which prevents it from having a shared vision, but, above all, it showed that we need to involve citizens fully in processes from which, to date, they have felt excluded."@en1
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