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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I shall let you into a secret: I prefer your own emollient presentation to the contribution, here in Strasbourg yesterday, by the French Prime Minister, whose game was one of national division. That said – and I imagine you will have realised the fact in the course of this debate – we shall judge you by your actions and not by mere words. You will also be aware that Parliament has high ambitions for a successful IGC, and it is the task of your presidency to bring it about. That is the ambition of Parliament and of my political group, in the service of a European democracy that operates at all levels, be it at European level or in each of our Member States, a democracy that respects this Charter of Fundamental Rights that we have just incorporated into the draft Constitution.
I have just, very belatedly, come across your programme in English – I do not, unfortunately, read Italian – and I see that there is again talk of Jacques Delors’s White Paper. I am delighted, because I think Jacques Delors was right. Since he proposed that the EU undertake this grand project of trans-border networks and European infrastructures, we are, quite simply, coming up against the same problem, namely that of funding. You raise the idea of funding by the EIB, but the EIB is still just a bank. You will find no solution other than a European loan. Are you prepared, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, to fight for a European loan to fund this major work? Otherwise, it will be a case of just words, words, words. At the end of the day, does this reinvigoration plan serve the cause of European growth or simply that of the Italian economy as it struggles to comply with the Stability and Growth Pact?"@en1
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