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"Mr President, Mr Van Rompuy, ladies and gentlemen, as I am one of the last people to speak, I would like to offer you some words of comfort. In my opinion, you were right to point out here that you do not represent the governments, but Europe and the European Union itself: an affirmation that is obvious, though not for some, evidently.
We therefore urge you to persevere in your role to ensure that the stable Presidency of the Union provides that encouragement, that backing, and forces the governments to turn their words into action.
We welcome what has been achieved over recent months, the idea of the task force and also the fact that the Heads of State or Government were forced to draw up a significant document because, Mr President, the content of that document, if put into effect – although we are not really sure whether all of the Member States do wish to put it into effect – is certainly significant.
For example, we do not know whether the statements in the final document on the taxation of financial transactions or on the tax on banks will actually become reality. We are waiting for the task force’s conclusions in order to see whether these effective instruments, in conjunction with the statements on economic governance, together with the statements on growth, are really an essential premise of our political action.
We wanted the constituent process, which ended with the Treaty of Lisbon, in order to signal a change: we hope that the stable Presidency of the Union will insist – as Mr Van Rompuy underlined in his reply – that these words become reality."@en1
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