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"Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, you came here to tell us that the problem is democracy. I could not agree more, but the European institutions were the first to say to the public that democracy could be dispensed with, that even elections could be dispensed with, and that solutions would be more technocratic than political. You also came here to tell us that the problem is political. I could not agree more because the fact is that the crisis did not happen due to some supernatural power, nor because some bankers’ eyes were bigger than their stomachs, but because of a policy, and the fact that those who decided that policy said that those bankers and speculators were free to have bigger eyes than their stomachs, so that nothing was done about it. You also came here to say that what was at issue here was a matter of European solutions. I could not agree more. However, this is contradictory. Stop telling the Greeks and the Portuguese that it is their fault, and that they have lived beyond their means. There has been enough austerity. Solidarity does not work with austerity, just as growth does not work with these policies, which run completely counter to European integration. After all, there can be no democracy, no politics and no Europeanism without citizens, and only with markets instead."@en1
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