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"Mr President, I also believe that there is reason to congratulate the Presidency on a job well done. In this regard, I would like to take the opportunity to convey this to our capable civil service, but also to the Prime Minister’s Minister for European Affairs, Nicolai Wammen, who has done a huge amount of work here in Parliament, which I believe is appreciated by everyone here in this House, irrespective of their political affiliations. Not everything has been worthy of praise, however. There are also a few questions to be asked, as there are some things that surprise me. One of these is that, in her speech, the Prime Minister quoted Konrad Adenauer and said that she is ‘European at heart’. She also used part of her speech to talk about solidarity. It therefore surprises me that, in the Danish media during the last week, the Prime Minister has been quick to distance herself from a fiscal union, to say ‘no’ to Denmark being one of the countries that are to be responsible for the debts of other countries, which, in reality, we already are of course, and spent the week cancelling a referendum. May I remind the Prime Minister of her own words in a speech she made not so long ago, when she asked: ‘What international organisation in the whole history of human kind has ever been able to do anything like what the EU has done in the past six months?’ These are grand words, it has to be said. They are extremely grand words. I am sure that we could mention some events that were perhaps grander than what has happened here. How, though, does this fit with the fact that you do not want a referendum in Denmark? If we have taken such major decisions in the EU, then it should result in a referendum and not the opposite, Prime Minister."@en1
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