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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since, at this European Council, we ought to be talking openly and putting all our cards on the table, it seems to me that the state of the euro area means we should be thinking about things in three stages: the short term being the urgency of the situation in Greece, the medium term being a strategy for growth and the long term our vision of the euro area and us ‘living together’.
In the short term, for Greece, we should realise that all those who thought that Greece could have a smooth exit from the euro area are being totally unrealistic; we have no Great Wall of China to protect us should Greece leave the euro area. Although we should also recognise that, in the Greek situation, nothing will be resolved if we continue to implement the troika’s mandate, which the Greeks rejected today. If we do not think things through, then nothing will be possible; there will be no general framework for an economic recovery, no hope restored, no dialogue and no solidarity at European level, be it in Greece or at European level.
Commissioner, as you know, Mr Hollande’s election offers a rare window of opportunity to raise these issues again under new conditions. I do not agree with Mr Ferber when he said that there is only one model in Europe, the German model. We are a union built on diversity. Therefore, grab this window of opportunity that you have been given to finally provide Europe with all the answers it needs. These answers include a growth strategy, but not just any growth strategy. It should look beyond the internal market to avoid the traps of negative integration. These solutions should also include a genuine industrial policy, enabling us to make the investments we need to make our Europe a sustainable Europe, where jobs are created, where the main waste is not this generation currently being squeezed out of the labour market.
You must admit then, Commissioner, that the way in which pressure is currently being put on Greece to reorganise its administration, while nothing is being done to help it with its negotiations with Switzerland, to put an end to the tax evasion performed by the privileged few in this country, is a source of injustice that neither the Greeks nor the Europeans, nor the French, nor the British nor the Germans should accept."@en1
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