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"Mr President, I believe that this agreement raises several issues. The first is as follows: this agreement has been presented as historic, decisive and the solution to the crisis. I am not at all convinced about that. I believe that it is just one more step, and not necessarily the best one, and that it will obviously not resolve the crisis. I fear that this is a negative response and, indeed, that adding a climate of legal uncertainty to the current climate of economic, social and financial uncertainty is not very sensible. That is my first point.
As for the content, we were told that budgetary discipline was going to be included in the constitutions. I believe that this agreement is unsound. We need a Europe that has budgetary discipline, on the one hand, and budgetary solidarity, on the other. As you said, Mr Barroso, we cannot have one without the other. All it would take is for plans to be made for Europe, via the ECB, to guarantee loans at favourable rates to indebted countries, provided that those countries undertake the necessary internal structural reforms, not because Europe is asking them to do so, but because they want to do so for themselves. In other words, the two must go hand in hand.
The last point, to finish: we are told that an intergovernmental Europe is going to be built. I think that this is a mistake. It is a mistake to give up on the inspiration behind the Community. It is a mistake to move away from the EU institutions, democracy and the democratic control of our institutions."@en1
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