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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like, first and foremost, to thank Ms Paliadeli for the patient work she has carried out in producing the second reading of this provision in collaboration with the other rapporteurs, including my colleague, Ms Sanchez-Schmid. Contrary to what was has been said of late, I am very convinced by this provision – because we can have different ideas and between us we can think things that are clearly different, but if we are here, we are here because we believe in the European Union and we believe in certain values that the Union has established and has seen emerge. These values are the fruits of a common history created by so many individual components in our own nations, in our own cities and in our own lands, but which have then shaped a common civilisation, history, identity and tradition. There is no need to rewrite history to say that Gdańsk was the gateway to the liberty and democracy of a large part of Europe. There is no need to call out the English soldiers who fought in the Second World War, because they were not fighting solely for England’s sake but to bring back liberty and democracy to the whole of Europe. There is no need to recount that this label comes at a price, as with anything of importance. In reality, this is a price which is comparatively small compared to so much of what we support, because by means of this provision, our territory will have factories, houses, libraries, historical centres, castles and places of worship that will remind us, in the diversity of our lands of origin and our nations, that we are children of the same culture, that we are children of the same land which we call Europe, and that, perhaps, if we always return to look at these places, we will find the answers to so many of the problems that trouble our Union today."@en1
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