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"Mr President, I should like to quote to Mr Barroso the words that he used in this House three months ago: Europe needs a new direction, and that direction cannot be based on old ideas. Europe needs a new thinking. That is what you said, Mr Barroso, and we could not agree more. But instead it is precisely the old thinking that is offered, with more Europe apparently being the answer to every crisis.
We heard this again from Mr Daul this morning. And this comes with a relentless drive to create a state called Europe – a European Federation. An idea which has no mandate from the citizens of our countries. For our Eurocrats who write the scripts in the European institutions, there is just one irreversible direction of travel: more integration. But the fact is that our citizens do not want this; they want more control over their own lives and over their own government, not more control from Brussels. They despair at what they see as a self-interested discussion that does not really address the most urgent problems facing them: how to reduce costs and the burden of unnecessary regulation, restore growth and competitiveness to our economies, create real jobs, and ensure a prosperous and secure future.
Europe needs to do less, but better. Today, finance ministers are meeting to try and agree a way ahead on proposals for banking union. Tomorrow, the European Council will reflect on progress which has been made. There must be acceptable arrangements to ensure that those countries that are not in the euro zone participate fully and effectively in any decisions that may impact on their financial, economic and political interests and the single market.
In this regard, Mr President of Parliament, I must express alarm at the unprecedented proposal that you put forward to establish a new committee on economic and monetary union that is deliberately designed to exclude at least one, if not more, Member States. In September, Mr Barroso, you stated very clearly: in Europe we need no more walls dividing us, because the European Union is stronger as a whole in keeping the integrity of its single market, its membership and its institutions. I find it disturbing, therefore, that there is a mindset, in this Parliament of all places, which seeks to run counter to that very sentiment.
The European Union likes to talk about diversity, but let us see it put this into practice. The euro zone should be recast, and the EU needs to be reshaped to enable different circles of engagement overlapping at the centre. We need a new treaty which will recognise this more flexible structure and which has the specific consent of the citizens of our nations."@en1
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