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"Mr President, Mr Wammen, Mr Šefčovič, I am having trouble getting used to the fact that, under the Treaty of Lisbon, it is the General Affairs Council that prepares the European Council meetings and it is you, Mr President, who wishes to participate in the European Council. I propose that President Van Rompuy be invited to prepare European Council meetings.
I would like to discuss three ideas, primarily with regard to making savings, but specifically savings in the sense of avoiding public spending. I propose that we consider pooling the resources of the European Union and the Member States, starting, for example, with an audit by the European Court of Auditors, in partnership with our 27 national courts of auditors, on the savings we could make. Twenty-seven armies, more enemies, research programmes financed 15 times over without coordination and hundreds of diplomatic buildings for which we could guarantee management for 10 years.
Finally, for growth, we should return to this idea of a major investment of EUR 1 000 to 1 500 billion in the Europe 2020 strategy. I also think we are not working enough on social convergence, with minimum wages that are not progressing. What hope do our people have if we fail to factor into the price chain a return to social convergence?"@en1
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