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"Mr President, I remember that half a year ago, it was fiscal austerity which was the issue of the day. Now it is growth of course, but unfortunately, we will achieve neither fiscal discipline nor growth in the atmosphere of uncertainty and unpredictability that we now have. Certainty and predictability: this is what we need most at the moment.
Unfortunately, this unpredictability and uncertainty is mostly caused by the wrong perception of the situation by the EU institutions, by the Commission and by Parliament, by us. Six months ago, Mr Barroso told me in this House that Greece would never leave the eurozone. Now even some Commissioners admit that this might happen and that Plan B is necessary for Greece. So what kind of assessment of the situation is that? It is just from one side to another.
I think that our institutions, unfortunately, have lost the ability to reflect public mood in the European Union because in hard times, as we have seen in France and in Greece repeatedly, people are looking at voting for strong national leaders to give responses to their problems. They do not care about us, they do not care about the Commission, they do not care about Parliament, and because of what? Because people are fed up with all that never-ending lunatic ideology of fiscal and political union that people like Mr Verhofstadt are still trying to sell, but no one is buying. People do not buy it any more so please let us stop talking about this nonsense. Let us be real. Let us deliver something real to the people, something we can do. Let us do our job. Let us, for instance, complete the single market and let us admit that fiscal discipline growth is mostly in the hands of Member States. Let us not mix things together and interfere with someone else’s job, otherwise we cannot get anywhere."@en1
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"Jan Zahradil (ECR )."1
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