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"Mr President, Mr Monti, there are many who welcome the speed of your action, an austerity plan that will satisfy every demand made by Mr Draghi, your compatriot and ex-colleague at Goldman Sachs and also current President of the European Central Bank; a liberalisation plan, in-depth reform of the labour market, re-christened as a plan for growth which, for the moment, is, above all, a plan for social regression.
You are congratulated for the courage that you have shown. Is it really courage, though, Mr Monti, when, being appointed to this post, you know that you will continue to carry out its responsibilities as in the past, without ever having to stand for election before the people whom you govern? It should not cause you personal offence if one were to say that your democratic credentials are somewhat limited.
You have, to date, been lauded by the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group, these somewhat shadowy, globalist bodies. You are a little lacking in democratic legitimacy, even though you enjoy a parliamentary majority.
You have painted a picture of an integrated Europe, but one that respects subsidiarity. However, Prime Minister, my colleagues have answered you: Mr Swoboda, who is Austrian, and Mr Verhofstadt, speaking on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, who is Flemish, answered you in English, even though we have interpreters here. Apart from a brief effort by Mr Verhofstadt, they shunned their national tongue. It was the language of Big Brother that they used, not the language of the British patriots here at my side."@en1
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