Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-24-Speech-2-161"
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"Mr President, during this economic crisis something very odd happened on the way to the forum, as they used to say. The people of Europe did not look to the European Union to save them from the economic crisis. They looked to their Member States and their national governments to save them from the economic crisis. The man who claims to have saved the world is about to come here in a couple of hours’ time but, leaving that aside, it is to the national governments – in Paris or London or Washington or Rome – that the citizens of those countries (who also happen to be told that they are citizens of Europe) look to save them, not this larger entity called the EU.
May I ask why that happened? May I ask those who bang on about the EU being this magnificent machine to ask themselves that question? I can give you the answer. The answer is that there is no demos, there is no connection between the EU institutions and the people. The people still look to their national governments to save them."@en1
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