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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we should concentrate on today’s subject, and forget about things that are off topic. What are we discussing today? We are discussing how we want to bring Parliament and the Member States together in order to establish strict ground rules that will not go the way of all things European, which is to say that, while they may be adopted here, when it comes to application, they no longer play a major role, as we have already experienced in many, many cases – not only with the euro, but elsewhere, too. We want to establish ground rules that really oblige the Member States to do things that are urgently necessary, in order to guarantee that which states were originally created to provide, namely, guaranteeing infrastructure, education, employment, social security and many other things for the people, although not at the expense of future generations or other Member States. We should therefore not do the other thing proposed in numerous amendments, which is to say, we should not accompany this obligation with the development of any new sources of funding that have only one purpose, namely, to reward those who have not kept to the rules hitherto and punish those who have. A Europe on that basis will not work in the long term. Europe will only work if everyone adheres to the ground rules agreed. The idea of a debt redemption fund must therefore be rejected. Such a fund punishes those who kept their houses in order, to the benefit of those who did not. The idea of eurobonds must therefore be rejected. Such bonds punish those who acted properly and adhered to the rules and reward those who did not. These sections should therefore be rejected."@en1
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