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"en.20111115.31.2-465-000"2
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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, I listened carefully to your speech. I respect you as a politician, and I very much liked many of the points you made. However, in a situation in which we are feeling the crisis, we are feeling the weakness of the Lisbon Treaty, and we are feeling, too, a weakening of your own authority. I expected you would say something more, and not speak as if you were only a bookkeeper. I expected you to talk about the causes of the crisis in Europe. I would also like to hear from you in subsequent statements about what lies at the root of the crisis.
You should be speaking about a return to traditional republican values – not going around the world with a collection hat, but going back to the traditional virtues of thrift and prudence, and talking about the demographic crisis and the crisis of the family. In Europe, there is a sense of prevailing crisis, and for this a bookkeeper will not be enough – what is needed is a politician who will define the fundamental problems which lay at the root of this crisis. They are not just bookkeeping problems, they are problems of a much more serious nature. They are problems of our attitude to our neighbours, with the fact that we shut ourselves off from others, with the fact that we do not know how to save, with the fact that austerity programmes and programmes for change are only programmes on paper. We are waiting for you to give a lead."@en1
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