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"Mr President, I want to consider two issues. First, to welcome the birth of the Euro Plus Pact, which is a welcome event. A new architecture is being born, almost a kind of economic Schengen. What is important is that it should be inclusive and open for those who are able and willing to participate and that it should not create a two-speed Europe. Unfortunately the pact will be half open because the amendment to Article 136, as debated and voted in our Committee on Constitutional Affairs has fallen. It reads: ‘Calls for the stability mechanism to be open from the outset to Member States whose currency is not the euro, but who wish to participate’. It will be half open because it will be open to take obligations upon its shoulders. It will not be open for those outside the euro who want to participate in the rights.
What unites us is the single market, much more so than the euro. It is not a euro crisis; it is a crisis in some euro Member States. Any non-euro Member State could have the same public finance problem. So there is a lack of logic and a lack of consistency.
A few words on Libya and the southern Mediterranean. Firstly, I want to congratulate us – in fact not the Union but some Member States who are at the forefront of the defence of human rights and democracy in Libya. We should be grateful to France and its leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, in leading the way.
I think it is the beginning of moving in our foreign policy from interest-based foreign policy to value-based foreign policy. We need to follow two steps. We need to redesign the neighbourhood policy and direct it towards our societies and governments and achieve something which we call in Central and Eastern Europe transition or transformation. It is also an alarm call to redesign and reform and strengthen the common security and defence policy so as to equip the Union with common command capacities and military capacities."@en1
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