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"en.20070117.3.3-026"2
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"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, you certainly, Madam Chancellor, deserve much respect for what you have accomplished in your life so far, and so I would like to appeal to you to again take all your courage and tenacity in your hands and, rather than walk into the trap your governmental counterparts have set, put something together around what you call regulation.
You have had a lot to say about the House of Europe, about its soul, and about tolerance, but nothing so far about what underpins it – the foundation of democracy. Your former President Mr Herzog’s contribution is worth reading over and over again, and you should not lose sight of the fact that, without democratic legitimation, without a foundation, the European house to which you have referred will not work. I urge you, then, to be bold and venturesome once more, to play the big move, and not only talk about rules, but work on something very fundamental – you yourself talked in terms of three Presidencies of the Council – instead of cobbling together something that will demand too much of the people, will leave Parliament out in the cold, and will end up – like the Republic from which you originally came – being thrown on the rubbish heap of history."@en1
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