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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say a big thank you to Ms Podimata and to all those Members who have worked hard so that we could hold today’s vote. This proposal has an inescapable logic and its basis is clear, robust and fair, if it is possible to use this latter adjective in relation to the economy.
Not even the objections raised today undermine this logic, and the understandable concerns voiced over the possible counterproductive or undesirable effects – if made in good faith – can potentially be answered and resolved, as shown by the debate over the last few months.
Of course, solutions to avoid undesirable effects exist, as long as there really is the will to establish this tax, because sometimes one has the feeling that caution is called for just to slow or block the approval process, with predictions of economic catastrophes. On this point, I would address Ms Ford: have we not already experienced these catastrophes thanks to harmful and reckless speculation?
Mention has also been made of difficulties, but today, Europeans are calling on the institutions to recover the ability to carry out their general role and to equip the world of finance with precise rules, since this is our duty and this is our sovereignty as a body with a general nature.
Therefore, let us make the right choice today, one which the citizens will welcome."@en1
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