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"Mr President, it is obviously never a secondary event when people say ‘no’ when they are asked about the future of Europe, and we cannot, and must not, ignore this ‘no’. On the contrary, we have to face it head on and try to respond to it.
As far as I am concerned, there are two questions that we must tackle. The first relates to democracy. The citizens expect Europe to offer legibility, visibility, comprehension, explanations, education, support. This question affects everyone, not just the national governments. It also applies to the European institutions, especially the Commission and the Council. That is the first question.
The second relates to the sense of Europe, its soul, and, as Martin Schulz just mentioned, its raison d'être. Why did we build Europe? That cannot boil down simply to market issues. We did not build Europe for competition alone; we are together for values, we have a project for society, we have a model of society – economic, social, sustainable, human – and that model deserves to be taken up, carried forward and defended. That is what our fellow citizens expect.
The world has changed a great deal since the Treaty of Rome. We must go back to the drawing board and lay new foundations for the European project so that it responds to the crises currently facing us – financial crisis, food crisis, energy crisis – but also responds to the considerable problems we must tackle. How can we create, how can we design growth that is better quality, more sustainable and more just? How can we reduce inequalities? How can we achieve a new global balance? How can we rethink the issue of developing countries and, in particular, their self-sufficiency?
Those are the questions that we need to answer and I think that now more than ever it is at last time for Europe to get back to politics."@en1
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