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"Mr President, thank you for this interesting debate that we are having today.
You said, regarding employment, that some Member States did not attend the Prague Summit. What is more serious, Mr President, is that the Council, in the greatest employment crisis in the history of Europe – today 10 000 Europeans will have lost their jobs, and the same tomorrow and the day after – has not taken any serious initiative and there has not been a single summit on employment. You could also have said that the Commission has an agenda from last year, which was outdated even then and which is now failing to meet the very pressing needs of millions and millions of citizens, of a whole generation of Europeans and the whole welfare state, whose future is at stake.
Mr President I want to ask for your leadership: we need active leadership, leadership that breaks with apathy and a lack of transparency. You need to tell the Council that we cannot go on like this. We need a Commission that not only manages ordinary resources and ordinary matters but which, at this difficult time – and I know that it is difficult for you, Mr President – places itself at the head of Europe, in a great institutional agreement to give hope to a whole generation of Europeans."@en1
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