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"Mr President, it is unthinkable to ask people who are actually paid to talk together to shut up. That is how you make decisions here.
I have two final remarks. I should like to remind you of what Mr Watson did in his speech: he brought the spirit of Mark Twain into this Chamber. He quoted Mark Twain, and, for those of you who were not here, Mark Twain said that at the end of the day when all is said and done more has been said than done. We now need to move from words to deeds on an institutional settlement. We feel that we deserve a second chance but cannot afford a second failure.
I just have two things I would like to send with Mr Steinmeier. I look at the leaders of the political groups and at the Minister in doing so, because we have to realise that we have a joint responsibility to explain and make it clear to people how this method of intergovernmental negotiations will have to be combined with explaining and listening to citizens; how we have a responsibility to communicate about this process with full respect of the fact that this and all its details cannot be negotiated in public. We have a joint responsibility to do as much as possible to involve citizens and civil society and make it an open, transparent and democratic process to the highest level possible. We must work together on this.
Secondly, it is time for me to repeat that the Commission’s position on an issue that several of you raised and which concerns the European Parliament’s involvement on this issue is that we see that the European Parliament should be closely associated with the intergovernmental conference, at least matching the involvement that it enjoyed at the last intergovernmental conference. That is our position.
Finally, we also have to work together to work out the political narrative in communicating with citizens, and that has to do with embracing the issues that concern most citizens. They are worried about migration, climate change and energy, and we have to send the message that we want to equip the European Union and its institutions in the best possible way to meet these new political challenges."@en1
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