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"Mr President, I should like to say to the previous speaker that those workers and others would not, at any price, wish to turn the clock back to the time before Solidarity.
There are few events one wishes to refer to with pride and pleasure, particularly in this House. In my view, solidarity is a concept that deserves a special entry in all encyclopaedias. It is not easy to show solidarity. It is often necessary to sacrifice one’s own interests, national interests and possibly higher ones too. The European Union is not a cohesive unit like a nation, an ethnic group, or maybe a political one. That is why an effort of solidarity is needed. It was only thanks to the determination and solidarity of workers, students, farmers, academics and sometimes of police and army officers that refused to be intimidated, along with the solidarity shown by people from abroad, that it was possible to force the dinosaurs clinging on to power to surrender it. That enabled ordinary decent people to reinstate respectable values.
If we find it within us to recognise the meaning of the Solidarity movement, and to learn this historic lesson, we shall be in a position to hope that the measures voted through in this House will be implemented. We shall also be in a position to hope that the coordinated body known as the Union will gradually come into being.
Europe is too complex and diverse for this aim to be achieved without solidarity. Solidarity must be promoted in this House, in the Commission, and through educational and cultural programmes. It needs to be grafted onto all Europeans. At the same time, we should be developing a broader solidarity that could be termed supra-continental, in order to help deal with the problems facing mankind. Allow me to emphasise that without solidarity there can be no future for Europe or for mankind as a whole.
In its 1980 version, solidarity began in Świdnik and Lublin, and it made it possible for us to be able to discuss fundamental values in this House today.
It is for contemporary European solidarity to ensure that at the end of the next 25 years, Members will be able to speak in similar terms about today’s Parliament and Commission, and credit them with playing a leading role in the historical process we are all involved in."@en1
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