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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 11 September, the Catalan people demonstrated peacefully in Barcelona. One million people have called for Catalan independence from Spain. On 15 October, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, made a speech at the time of signing an agreement to allow a referendum for Scottish independence from London. In Veneto, my own region, over the past few weeks, thousands of people have signed a petition for a referendum on whether Veneto should have independence from Italy. Yesterday, hundreds and thousands of people in Veneto, Lombardy and across all the regions in Northern Italy signed a petition for more autonomy from Rome. And, in Flanders and the Basque Country, too, citizens are calling vigorously for autonomy and independence from the national States. And what does our President, Martin Schulz, say to all this? He calls for a courageous commitment to give a clear rejection of all separatist tendencies. His Vice-President, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, even goes so far as to call for the use of force against Catalan citizens. These declarations are a matter of extreme seriousness, contrary to the principles of the democracy which we proclaim here and which we should defend. I would say to them that it is for the people to write the future of the new Europe, not for the bureaucrats in Brussels. We know what we must do."@en1
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