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"Mr President, it is a positive thing that the euro area countries last Friday rallied unanimously behind our common euro, despite the fact that there are still many question marks along the road to a new treaty. We must achieve stability quickly, because it is this constant turmoil that is damaging our economic growth and thereby the interests of our citizens.
However, we are also making great progress, because the ‘six-pack’ comes into force today and I, as rapporteur, am pleased about that. I am proud of the role we, as the European Parliament, have played. A strong role for the European Commission, a democratic role for the European Parliament and a high level of responsibility for Member States and national parliaments. I was also pleased with the interim report by President Van Rompuy because it builds on the ‘six-pack’. I wonder, though, if that is the direction you chose during the summit? Your report is clear when it comes to budgetary discipline, but it is vague when it comes to the further economic cooperation that is so necessary.
The letter from Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy, which came out at the same time as your report, calls for enhanced institutional cooperation with a leading role for government leaders and what it describes as the new preparatory structures. Government leaders who will appraise each other. That did not work in 2003 or in 2005 when it came to budgetary discipline, nor has it worked with the one-and-a-half-year Competition Pact; indeed, it has hardly produced any results.
I am therefore curious, President Van Rompuy, and while your optimism, President Barroso, is worthy of praise, which way we go will be decisive, for we not only need more monetary integration but also more economic integration, in order to save our common currency. That will only work if, not just we, but also our government leaders and our community institutions, are given a weighty role. Therefore, President Van Rompuy, President Barroso, Commissioner Rehn, we expect you to play a leading role. You can count on our support."@en1
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