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Mr President, I have spent the past weeks doing a lot of campaigning on the future of Europe, and, while it is very unfortunate that the referendum in the Netherlands has ended in a ‘no’, this is not, of course, unexpected. If year in, year out, the only thing a country gets to hear about Europe is that it costs too much, and that it is a disgrace how much the Netherlands is paying to Brussels, then you can hardly expect people to jump up for joy, shout ‘yes!’, and resolve to accept this Europe with open arms.
Dutch accountants have sown the euro scepticism that was reaped on 1 June. What has the Dutch Government made of it all? It claims that the Dutch ‘no’ is a ‘no’ to our being a net contributor. Well, that is, of course, turning the facts upside down. To my great horror, this has now suddenly become the position of the Dutch Social Democrats as well, and that is depressing but, of course, a very easy option. My group has interpreted the ‘no’ in a very different way. Many people did not vote against Europe, but want a better Europe, not a Europe of multinationals, but one of people.
The Group of the Greens has therefore tabled an alternative resolution, because we want to invest heavily in education, in poverty-reduction projects and in exchange programmes, also for students. We want more development cooperation; we want to invest in the Millennium objectives. We also want to protect our vulnerable environment by actually freeing up funds; everyone in this Chamber is agreed that these should be made available, but they are not. We do not want this reality to prejudice the rural economy.
We want to spend the money more effectively, not on prestigious but inefficient national showpieces, such as the bridge over the Straits of Messina Street, but, for example, on the railway connection that links up Berlin with Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn or Vienna or Venice with Ljubljana, Bratislava, Prague and Budapest. With empty promises alone and no money to back them up, you will only alienate the voter even more. You will need to make it clear in what way you want to make your dreams come true. That is why we have tabled a resolution."@en1
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