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"Mr President, I am not going to speak about competitiveness, growth and fiscal discipline. I want to go beyond economics because on that, nearly everything has been said. I want to speak on the cost of shrinking Europe and the cost of there being a half Europe on the horizon, and on the collateral damage being done to the Union itself and its future and its unity. Five points. One: we witness the birth of two levels of solidarity for those inside and those outside the eurozone – compare Spain and Hungary – with a shrinking budget for the EU27 and generous handouts for eurozone Member States only. Eventually, proposals for a separate parallel growth budget of up to 1% of GDP for the eurozone only, which will be equipped with a separate parallel eurozone Parliament along with a eurozone summit and administrative Councils. Two: we witness two standards of treatment and macro-economic conditionality of Member States, different for big and small countries, and once again different for eurozone Member States and non-eurozone Member States. Three: we witness a two-speed Europe, not just expanding, but becoming more and more acknowledged and approved, irrespective of the wishes of President Barroso. This threatens the very integrity and unity of the Union. Four: we witness the mounting erosion of the Community method with intergovernmentalism and national egoisms resurging. Five: we witness the political weakening of the EU on the international scene and we risk a security vacuum and geostrategic threats if Greece or anybody else falls out. How does one measure the collateral political damage? What is the cost of a shrinking Europe and the cost of Europe? How many billion euro is it worth? How does one find a solution for all of Europe and not half of Europe?"@en1
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