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"Mr President, my speech will be shorter, as Mr Juncker has already mentioned many of the questions I wished to express an opinion on in his very honest and comprehensive speech. That is why I should like to convey to him a personal thank you and also thank the entire Luxembourg presidency for its extremely important work. It is a great pity that the success that we had hoped for is still to be achieved.
Now some words on the essence of the problem. Evidently, our electors, our people still do not understand that we face new challenges. If it was perhaps the case a few decades ago that we still had the Berlin Wall, we still had the cold war, and that this perhaps instinctively united people and allowed them to take common decisions more easily and to vote for them, none of that is present now. Perhaps people still do not perceive or understand this new challenge, this global competition that Europe faces, and not just every one individually, but Europe as a whole. That is why this medicine, this Constitutional Treaty, is essential. That is why it is also essential to look at what are Europe’s values; and Europe’s values today are obviously its people, for we have to take into account the demographic situation, which unfortunately is not a progressive one for Europe. I know that it is not progressive for my nation, but neither is it progressive for the whole of Europe. If we are becoming fewer, then every individual must be of a higher quality. Therefore our chief task is to invest in people, in people’s education; that is our future."@en1
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