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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe sums up its policies towards citizens in the slogan ‘United in Diversity’. This is yet another ‘do-gooder’ paradox that is belied by the facts.
When we have to force absurd directives and economic sacrifices on our citizens, the Treaties force Member States to be united. Yet where there is no legal obligation, events that require cooperation and solidarity show the true spirit of Europe, which is divided into twenty-seven countries focusing on protecting their own individuality.
How can we forget Europe’s scandalous reaction to the events of the Arab Spring, when 50 000 refugees landed on the coasts of Italy and the northern Member States suspended the Schengen Agreement? And while, here in Parliament, we are asking for European citizenship to be invested with new meaning, eight Member States are applying to the Council for suspension of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, the fund created to help our citizens, having themselves already benefited from it.
Europe should stop using slogans and propaganda for concealing all its inconsistencies from the eyes of its citizens, who are the real financial backers of the European dream. Unless we are unanimous when it is a case of helping them, making 2013 the European Year of Citizens would only be yet more hypocrisy."@en1
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