Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-13-Speech-2-029-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conclusions of the European Council meeting (1-2 March 2012) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120313.6.2-029-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-13-Speech-2-030-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ECON (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; ITRE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the most important reform to implement is to reduce the number of summits of Heads of State or Government. They are practically useless. If the euro is doing better, it is because of the action taken by the European Central Bank and Mario Draghi. In fact, the announcement of summits gives rise to futile hopes. That was the case of the most recent summit, which produced a few empty words on stronger growth but nothing tangible, for instance, on combating youth unemployment. What is more, back at home, the leaders’ fine European professions of faith evaporate. President Sarkozy claims to be leading Europe and boasted of having created the Treaty of Lisbon. Now, as an electoral candidate, Mr Sarkozy is threatening to leave Schengen. Has he not yet noticed that the Schengen agreements are an integral part of the Treaty, Article 67 of which makes the ‘absence of internal border controls for persons mandatory? In order to leave Schengen, France would therefore have to leave the European Union. In any case, I wonder what Mr Sarkozy wants to check. Is it the 1.4 billion annual movements at internal borders? Is it the millions of tourists that flock to France every summer? Is it the half a million French people who are frontier workers in neighbouring countries? All these populist initiatives merely serve to conceal the inability of the leaders to commit to a real growth policy. This was apparent in the case of Greece, where Europe imposed measures that have led to a contraction in domestic demand, the bankruptcy of 200 000 small and medium-sized enterprises and the erosion of the purchasing power of the Greeks. Now, Greece’s growth is at a standstill."@en1
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