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"Mr President, the Council last week showed signs – although they are still only signs – of a positive change of course towards a more balanced, fairer and therefore, potentially, more effective response to combating the crisis; a response that will really make it possible to combine austerity with growth, which is essential.
Parliament had already made this change of course a few months ago, and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament had made it a couple of years ago. We therefore welcome this new course.
This Council is seeing, and will see, in my view, the decline of the high-handedness of the two leaders’ pact and of the dogmatic high-handedness of those who have simply proposed tough measures and punishments and have not in any way taken into account their social consequences. This decline of high-handedness does, in fact, represent a return to reality. The reality is that, without growth, there will be no jobs, and we now know that unemployment is at the highest level the European Union has ever seen.
The reality is that, without growth and jobs, the social crisis will explode and the legitimacy of the European project will collapse. Let us therefore ensure that the signs that the Council is showing become a reality in the coming months, let us support the countries making real sacrifices, such as Italy and Spain, and let us put pressure on those countries which, having made a decision, are now throwing up obstacles: Finland and the Netherlands."@en1
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