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"Mr President, discouragement and determination are two words that begin with ‘d’ and which I believe accurately reflect the feelings of Mr Juncker today and of many Members of this House: discouragement in view of what happened at the European Summit, determination to face the future: discouragement, because Mr Juncker, on describing the debate on the financial perspectives to us, sounded like an auditor heading a team of accountants.
And I would put the question: who was talking about Europe when the financial perspectives were being negotiated? Nobody talked about Europe. Everybody talked about their national interests. Actually that is not true, Mr President: some people talked about Europe, those we call the ‘new countries’ talked about Europe, the countries of the last enlargement. I believe that, if there has been an example of vision and ambition at this Summit
the vision and ambition that has always characterised Europeanism
then that example has been given by the new countries. I therefore propose that we stop calling them ‘new countries’, because they have shown that they do not need to take lessons in Europeanism from anybody.
Like Mr Lamassoure, I too believe that we will certainly have to reflect upon the system of own resources. We tried that in the Convention — some of you will remember — but there was no way of introducing anything. In fact, there was a small group in the European Convention considering how to introduce a new system of own resources into the Constitution. We will have to return to this issue.
With regard to the Constitution, Mr President, I believe that what is going to happen in practice, which is the suspension of the referenda, is a good thing: this is not the right time to hold more referenda and we must dedicate ourselves to debate. I therefore believe that the idea of establishing the end of the Austrian Presidency as the time for relaunching the process is a good one and I believe that this Parliament must begin to consider what it is going to do in the future. In this respect, the resolution that will be voted on tomorrow contains a clause that moves in that direction and I believe that it conforms to that ‘d’ for determination that Mr Juncker urged us to show and that I am sure this Parliament will agree with."@en1
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