Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-11-15-Speech-2-491-000"
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"Mr President, it is quite clear, as we go through this crucial period, that today we have had presented to us only a very bare sketch plan for 2012. Europe is deeply wounded and limping; the very social fabric is tearing apart. The pressures in our nation states are there for all to see, and our citizens are beginning to turn, increasingly, to the extremes. Germany provided us with a very stark reminder just yesterday.
Are we to follow suit, and follow a policy of pulling up the drawbridge between Europe and the world? President Barroso argues against doing so. He says there are opportunities globally, yet when he speaks about those opportunities and bilateral agreements, he makes no mention at all of the most advanced of those negotiations, on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement. Does he not mention it because he knows it is ‘locked’? It is an agreement which requires political pragmatism; it needs him to go forth and deliver that, yet there is no mention of it.
Today, that agreement has become a test case to demonstrate the future way in which we are to progress. Jobs, growth and confidence are not going to be delivered by the financial transaction tax or criminal law proposals, but by going ahead and being brave on behalf of Europe and reaching out to the world. I do not see that in this action plan."@en1
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