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"Mr President, I am not underestimating the importance of the economic choices that we have to make, but please allow me to focus on a rather more political point in this debate. Over recent weeks, we have once again heard evidence of the doublespeak used by certain top European leaders or would-be top leaders.
Though they are all incessantly calling for proper coordination of our economic, budgetary and fiscal policies, and this requirement even seems to be a
for the euro area to survive, once they are comfortably back at home, they consider it smart to criticise the well-balanced recommendations issued by the Commission, to go back on certain commitments or, worst of all, to stir up public opinion against these Brussels diktats, as they call them. Their irresponsible attitude would be laughable if we were not in such a terrible situation.
I tell you straight: our debates on stability, the necessary stabilisation of public finances or the work to be done to secure growth will be well and truly doomed to failure if the bad old habits of debt and public deficits are not done away with and if the Member States’ governments persist with their nonchalant attitude. Right now, we are playing with fire. European discipline has to apply to everyone without exception, including even the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. That demands a certain amount of courage, and public opinion in our countries is ready for it, even more so than some of their leaders would like to think.
I have a final word for Ms Goulard, or else I should show her the blue card: I would end by saying that within ‘redemption’, there is ‘buyback’."@en1
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