Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-12-Speech-3-013-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:State of the Union (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120912.4.3-013-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-09-12-Speech-3-014-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Guy Verhofstadt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Presidents (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 chair; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank President Barroso very much for his message, because he has recognised – and this was a change from the debates last month and last year – that we are still in the middle of a deep crisis and we have to recognise that when we discuss the State of the Union today. But what we are seeing today is more of a deep political crisis. Everybody is talking about public finances, about interest rates, about economics. In my opinion it is not about Greece, it is not about the public finances, it is not even about economics as being the fallout of the crisis. The real nature of this crisis is a political one and that is the political incapacity today to make the jump forward to a federal union and, more precisely, the incapacity of the national elites of Europe to make this jump to a more federal union in Europe. That is the real crisis we are going through today. I am saying that, Mr Barroso, because you have made a whole speech, but at the end of the speech you come up with a concept and that concept we cannot accept: a federation of nation states. No, no federation of nation states, that is more of the same, we have that already – that is the European Council, which is a federation of nation states where the Heads of Government and the Heads of State were trying to solve and are incapable of solving this crisis. We do not want more of the same – we do not need a nationalistic or a national future for Europe. We need a post-national future for Europe. That is what we need. What we need for Europe is not a federation of nation states: it is a federal union of European citizens. It is about citizens and it is not about nation states in the future."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Guy Verhofstadt,"1 "on behalf of the ALDE Group."1
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