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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot go on creating Europe without its citizens. The year 2013 will be the European Year of Citizens. This is good news. There is a lot at stake here, and we shall have to give ourselves the resources to enable us, in the difficult situation which the European Union is experiencing, faced with disaffection and lack of confidence, to turn the European Year of Citizens into Year One of European citizenship in everyday life.
Our citizens are the reason for our presence here, and we must send them the message that Parliament and the European Union do not take citizens’ rights lightly, that they are at the heart of all the decisions that we take on a day-to-day basis. We need a campaign which matches the level of what is at stake. Savings in the budget must not be made on this aspect if we do not want the gulf between the Union and its citizens to become even wider.
The action programme will have to be ambitious. The tools of participative democracy must be developed and distributed: petitions, access to the Ombudsman, European citizens’ initiatives, citizens’ forums, consultations, etc.
I am sorry to say that our citizens fail to appreciate the rights and tools of participative democracy. In 2013, let us put our citizens back into the heart of our institutions and, in so doing, put Europe back into the heart of its Member States."@en1
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