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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, the events taking place serve as a lesson for the future. This method of ratification has proved to be a mistake and one referendum on a single day would have been better. If we had had more courage then, we would not be in this situation today. The June European Council, as has been mentioned, will now have to be able to read the signals resulting from the ‘no’ vote in the referendum and find an exit route. It is increasingly clear, however, that there are two possible solutions in play: the first – as we have also heard in this House – is less Europe: it should turn back, slow down, stop enlargement, culminating in the foolishness that I have even heard in my country about the euro. The second is to relaunch a fresh challenge that proposes more Europe – I would say the real Europe. Yet if we do, however, want this second solution to prevail, as I do, we have to be able to innovate and change, and denounce the fact that we are paying for the hold-ups of recent years: we are paying for the hold-ups of Nice and of Lisbon, and the lack of resources to match our ambitions. Moving forward is therefore right, as it is right to denounce the part played by national selfishness. That setback must inspire us, however, to determinedly address the unresolved difficulties, and then Europe will genuinely be able once again to harbour hopes of tackling afresh those fears, uncertainties and anxieties experienced by our citizens today."@en1

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