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"I abstained from the vote on the joint motion for a resolution on the European Council’s conclusions (8-9 December 2011) on a draft international agreement on a Fiscal Stability Union. In fact, even if this resolution emphasises both form, namely that only the Community method can allow us to put in place a true economic and budgetary union, and content, by insisting on the fact that budgetary discipline will not be enough to resolve the European economic and financial crisis by itself, the terms of this text do not sufficiently call into question the substance of the draft agreement. What is needed is to tackle the root causes of the crisis by calling neo-liberal policies into question; to denounce the restrictive austerity mechanism which will be applied to current and future governments of Member States and therefore to European citizens – thereby removing any possibility of budgetary choice for the future –; to underline the ultra-technocracy coming into play in the agreement, which will in fact widen the gap between the European institutions and European citizens and aggravate the European democratic crisis; and finally, to recall that the draft agreement will institutionalise a Europe of double standards, the Member States who are part of the agreement and those who are not."@en1
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