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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, you, Mr President of the Commission, spoke of ‘turning words into action’. Indeed – the implementation of what has been resolved upon rather than announcements, and a move from enlargement to integration. Not only for the media, but also for many of us in this House, the summit was more about rhetoric than about substance. I cannot deny that I attribute that to the date on which it was held.
Fourteen days after the gathering in Rome, what really new developments can one expect on the constitutional front? What sort of response did the Commission expect to its Growth Initiative in view of its inadequate preparation and the fact that the EU has no policy on either industry or the economy? Might it not be necessary to combine the Member States’ economic programmes and the Growth Initiative into a package with real financial capacity and to make a statement about who is to do what by when in Europe in order to achieve the objectives that we agreed together?
I spoke in terms of announcements giving way to the implementation of what has been resolved upon. We do not need anything new. We want Europe to be strong on the world stage and, internally, to be structured on subsidiary lines. We want the Stability and Growth Pact; let us abide by it and implement it. We have the concept of the internal market; let us at last make it a reality. We have competition policy; let us see to it that barriers to competition are removed in every Member State. We have the targets set at Lisbon, Göteborg, and Barcelona; what we need is operational programmes to implement what has been resolved upon, not new announcements.
Secondly, we have before us a balanced basis for decision on the constitution. We all know what points remain to be resolved. While services of general interest are subject to the subsidiarity principle, they form part of the European social model, and so they need a derogation from competition law. Delays will do nothing to resolve these issues. We can achieve the timetable because the issues are still on the table.
Thirdly we say both ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to a referendum. By that we mean a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to a national referendum on reform. I will conclude by putting a question to you. Why, then, do we not start by rethinking this issue too? I say ‘yes’ to a Europe-wide referendum, ‘yes’ to a Europe-wide information campaign, ‘yes’ to a Europe-wide result. That means that the majority of the states and the majority of the votes decide instead of nationalising a European project."@en1
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