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"Mr President, I do not intend to take up too much time talking about the measures in the two reports that we are discussing.
I agree one hundred percent with the comments made by Mr Hökmark.
I would like, Mr President, to focus for a moment on the analysis. Europe is not working well. Mr Goebbels has not wished to rub salt in the wounds, he has given a rosy view of the situation and so has Mr Almunia. He says that the conditions are in place for Europe to work properly, but the population knows that it is not going well.
The enormous pessimism amongst all our populations has been very visible in the debates that are currently taking place in relation to the referenda in France and in the Netherlands. We are growing less than the United States, we are creating less employment, we are less productive and we are very far from achieving the Lisbon objectives.
This enormous pessimism has led our populations to express perfectly understandable fears. How are we going to deal with the challenges of globalisation? How are we going to deal with the competition from the emerging countries? We are currently discussing the problem of the textile sector and competition from Eastern countries will soon bring further problems. How are we going to prevent the relocation of companies? How are we going to deal with the challenge of immigration? How are we going to safeguard a welfare state threatened by the ageing of the population?
These fears are increasing because the response of the institutions has been weak. We have discussed the Stability and Growth Pact – and we are continuing to do so – and we should make it very clear that we have reached a situation of mass non-compliance, a kind of amnesty, and we have ignored the strictest rules for ensuring budgetary stability.
We are incapable of establishing the financial perspectives and all the signs are that we want to spend less money on the Union. With less money, we will not create more Europe, but rather less Europe.
As my colleagues have pointed out, we are a very long way from implementing the reforms we need to make. This Parliament has sent a good message by bringing together the two reports we are debating today and trying to eliminate discrepancies so that the message is clear. It now falls to the Commission and the Council to oblige the Member States to comply with what is decided here. It is true that we are going to discuss the national programmes when they are drawn up, but I hope that the Commission is not content simply to be a letter box nor that it restrict itself to politely praising the national programmes, but that it will demand that the States demonstrate courage, determination and audacity, which is what is needed in order to put an end to the enormous pessimism that I have intended to describe here."@en1
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