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"Mr President, I am rather surprised. This morning on the German radio station
Mr Schulz was celebrating the agreement on the ‘six-pack’ as the hour in which the European Parliament demonstrated its importance and I completely agree with him about this. However, he failed to mention that the left wing of this House did, of course, vote against the ‘six-pack’ and has now also taken up a position opposing the results of the summit, balanced budgets and effective sanctions. This does not add up. I am sorry, but we have a debt union. We must have balanced budgets. We need sensible mechanisms which will allow us to achieve this. That is what was decided at the summit. In overall terms, the results are an effective way of allowing us to move from being a debt union to becoming a stability union.
However, on one point I agree with him and my other fellow Members: this will become a government agreement. As a result, the risk of a democratic deficit and of a lack of acceptance by the citizens is very real. Therefore, it is very important that the parliaments, both this House and the national parliaments, are very closely involved in this process.
My third point, Mr Barroso, concerns something that is important to me. Of course it is essential that what is decided in this fiscal compact is transferred into the Treaties. To do this, we just need the agreement of the United Kingdom at some point. However, it may possibly be the case that we will be forced to do things the other way round. We may need to see this fiscal compact as the founding of a new European Union, as closer integration and as the starting signal for a new project. Nevertheless, I would like to make it clear that we want the British to be involved.
Mr Daul, the countries where Liberal parties are in government are those where the public finances are largely in good shape: Estonia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Sweden. These are the countries where the Liberals are in government. In the countries where the Conservatives are in power without Liberals to apply corrective measures, such as Italy, Greece and Portugal, things look a little different. The Liberal position is very clear in that respect."@en1
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