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"Mr President of the European Commission, you are planning to present the European Constitution to the citizens of the European Union in a comprehensible manner. I should therefore like to ask the Commission also to include in this strategy a precise definition of the concept of Europeanism. The Constitution states that Europeanism will be a criterion for the selection of the next European Commissioners, the de facto government for the four hundred and fifty million citizens of the European Union.
I do not know how to explain to the citizens of the Czech Republic, whom I represent here, what this Europeanism actually is. I cannot say which of the present Commissioners and Members possess more or better Europeanism. I do not know what criteria are currently used to distinguish between a good and a bad European. I come from a country where, for decades, people did not get ahead as a result of their abilities, education, initiative and efficiency, but as a result of how loudly and how often they declared their commitment to a single political idea. Today, the countries of eastern Europe are still paying dearly for this way of running society in terms of economic backwardness. I should not like to live to see the promotion of concepts such as Europeanism in the European Union."@en1
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