Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-078"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there used to be a very witty and cynical slogan written on a wall in the Milan metro that said, ‘
’, a bit like the weather or food.
We live in a time when the younger generations are no longer convinced that the future will be better, as their parents once thought. Indeed we often hear people saying that ‘
’. A sovereignist, nationalist, anti-European way of thinking is emerging and developing on our continent. We have heard some examples of it in this Chamber this morning.
I believe that the Lisbon result is important, although more for the speed with which it was decided, which sends out a positive signal to public opinion, rather than its content, since there are still too many opt-outs and clauses, and it is still too complicated. However, Parliament, the Commission and the Council now have another 18 months in which to restore public opinion following this crisis period.
All of us, or at least the majority of us in this Chamber, believe that Europe is the solution to globalisation concerns, and not the cause, and that we are stronger if we tackle immigration, climate change, innovation and research together. This is what most MEPs in here think. We now have 18 months in which to convince the 500 million citizens who live in Europe of this before the European elections."@en1
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"Europe is not what it once was"1
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