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"Mr President, while the fire-fighters of Strasbourg were wandering through the Strasbourg fog, trying to catch the – eurosceptic, I am sure – fawns belonging, I believe, to Mr Roger Helmann, the aircraft in which I was travelling circled round and round in the sky above, giving me the time to read and reread the Italian newspapers reporting the statement of the Italian Minister for Economic Affairs, Giulio Tremonti, to the effect that ‘Europe must decide on pensions’. Are we Europeans so powerful, then? Of course, we are unable to stop deer running around in the fog but we have to decide what to do about pensions. I believe that this is a case of the principle of subsidiarity being reversed: when it suits the States, then it is the States that decide; when they need to cut pensions and make pensioners tighten their belts, then it suits them to say that Europe has to make the decision. Do you not think you should do something, Mr President?"@en1

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