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"Like many of my colleagues, I would like to begin by thanking Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Council and his colleagues. I awaited the results of the European Council in Vilnius, Lithuania, and watched Mr Juncker's press conference on television after midnight on Thursday. He looked very well and his emotion did little harm, but some others, to put it mildly, did not look so good. I do not doubt that the new Member States, including Lithuania, will appreciate the last six months of the presidency and the personal contribution made by Mr Juncker. Luxembourg has clearly demonstrated that the well-known definition of this state as ‘small, but notable’ is true. What would the European Union be without you!
History and past experience clearly shows that Europe, the European Union, was always strong when it gave precedence not to national interests, the demonstration of states' power and the personal ambitions of certain political leaders, but to common values and solidarity without denying internal competition, the engine of all progress. I believe that today, knowing and appreciating the results of the European Council, as well as the French and Dutch ‘no’ to the European Union Constitutional Treaty, and considering the nature of the United Kingdom's vision of the European Union, we also ought to analyse the cause of the current situation very carefully. The ratification of the Constitutional Treaty should not be an end in itself, and agitators and expounders will be of no help in this situation, no matter how highly qualified they are. The citizens' Europe proclaimed by us should become a reality, and this means that we must listen attentively to the voice of the citizens if we want to avoid renewed disillusionment.
Analysis shows that in France and the Netherlands the European Union Constitutional Treaty was largely rejected because the door was left open to Turkey to become a European Union member in the future. We also notice that the most sensitive issues today are employment, new jobs, the growth of economic competition and the further expansion of the European Union. These should be the signposts in our dialogue with the citizens of the European Union."@en1
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