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"Mr President, Commissioner, to start with, I would of course like to congratulate you and thank you for the extremely thorough and very expeditious work that you have carried out to introduce the two proposals that are here before us today. We shall play a different role in each of them, which will also be dependent on the legal basis.
However, Commissioner, I feel, when I listen to what each of you has to say and read the newspapers, that these negotiations are fraught with danger, because people’s opinions are different. The commitments entered into are not clear. Yet, we are currently being watched closely by our fellow citizens, who want to understand and see what Europe is doing, by our entrepreneurs, who want to know if they can invest, and by the markets, which are anxious to know what to do.
I believe that, in the coming months and weeks, the direction that the negotiations take will be a determining factor. I shall not go into technical details here, as they will be the subject of the debate, but I shall merely observe that, unless we show a real European spirit, unless we show that we can set aside short-term national interests and unless we are able to put in place genuinely robust European institutions, all our work will be to no avail and cause disappointment.
I am confident in your determination, Commissioner, which I know to be unflagging. You have a record that does credit to you and, therefore, we can say that luck is on our side. It is now up to the Member States to shoulder their responsibilities and rise above squabbles over technical matters. The issue is not how we share out one minor competence or another. The real issue is whether we are able to create banking union, or at least a quality prudential control system, to put finance at the service of the economy."@en1
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