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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, let us take a practical look at what is already happening. We must measure in this way, with intellectual honesty and, I believe, this form of cooperation, any difference between what is said and what is done. On 7 June, Mr Berlusconi, in Jerusalem, you said, and I quote: ‘In the future, Europe must include Israel. We look on Israel as a European nation to all intents and purposes: cultural, economic and political’, going on to describe it as the Middle East’s only true democracy. I repeat: ‘In the future, Europe must include Israel. We look on Israel as a European nation to all intents and purposes.’ This is the official wording of the written document we have. ‘In this context,’ (the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) – and I quote – ‘we shall not neglect the need to consolidate relations with Israel with the prospect of more extensive and structured reciprocal cooperation’. This is the line taken by those who oppose Israel’s entry into the European Union, for, clearly, those who are opposed do not say ‘We don’t want these dirty Jews’; they say ‘Cooperation is enough’. We support Mr Berlusconi who, at that time, was not yet President-in-Office of our Council.
Similarly, as regards Turkey, we have always heard Russia, Turkey and Israel specified. Here, too, your text explicitly denies the goal of Turkey’s accession. What does it say? ‘The Italian Presidency furthermore considers it essential to inject more specific content into relations with the Russian Federation’ and so on. This is quite clear. As regards Turkey, ‘… we are engaged in jointly monitoring its path to integration, encouraging the Government in Ankara to continue its efforts in the fundamental process of internal reforms.’ And that is supposed to herald its accession! It is true that Mr Buttiglione has said in recent days that Turkey is a military regime which can never become part of the European Union, but without the soldiers it becomes a theocracy. This is Christian Europe! I would just like to say one thing very briefly, and we must admit
it. It is not true that there is a history of Europe – just one: there are many. There is the history of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation, there is the history of a Europe which produced victorious communisms and victorious fascisms and nazisms, which produced, and still produces today, antidemocracy. Then there is the other history, the history condemned, I regret to say, by our Polish Pope when he condemns liberalism. By the way, it is
Mr Watson, not
: here we have had liberalism for a century. There is a Europe of the Pontifical Zuaves – European and French Zuaves – fighting the Italian
There is a Europe which is the Europe opposed to our Europe of Altiero Spinelli, of Ernesto Rossi, of the Europe, Mr Berlusconi, which you heralded at the G8 in a way which I applauded. We Radicals applauded! We want to take Europe closer to the World Democracy Organisation and focus actively on the Community of Democracies. We applauded at the G8! Today, of course, Mr Watson was quick to stress the Keynesian nature of your speech, but I have always maintained that, culturally, there is essentially great similarity between you and President Prodi when it comes to the political choices you make. Giulio Tremonti talks of ‘Colbertism’ rather than ‘Keynesianism’, but when all is said and done …
There are just two things we have to ask from you, then. Firstly that, at the United Nations General Assembly, the European Union includes or brings about the inclusion, as Mr Fini announced, of the question of the moratorium on the death penalty. Secondly that, starting with the UN events, the Democratic Caucus representatives should be convened by the Presidency of the European Union. If you comply with these two requests then we will be more than content. As far as the rest is concerned, I wish you and us all luck."@en1
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