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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, you, Mr Blair, are not the solution to Europe’s problems; in fact you are one of the problems. You are not a new problem, but an old problem.
The problems of Europe are its inability to work towards achieving peace, and, let us not forget, you went to war in Iraq alongside George Bush. They are democratic, political, economic and social crises precisely due to the liberalist, monetarist and technocratic policies that you advocate, passing off old ideas as new.
You talk about political Europe, but in fact you entrust it all to the market, because for you, politics, the economy and the market are one and the same thing. In fact, whilst you understand that this liberalist Constitutional Treaty is dead, the cure that you propose to us is completely inappropriate, in terms of liberal reforms, starting with the one on services and the labour market: this cure of yours does not even enjoy good health in your own country, as we witnessed with the elections.
No! The solution to Europe’s problems is something else entirely, and it is precisely
to be found in this left-wing, mass Europeanism that has consciously emerged among citizens who have read and understood and expressed themselves by means of the vote in France and the Netherlands. They were not protesting against either Turkey or enlargement, but explicitly against liberalism. They call for a tangible and formal Constitution for a new peaceful, democratic and social Europe, and can find broad agreement on that with the many citizens who expressed a critical ‘yes’ vote.
That is our Europe and this Parliament has a major responsibility that it cannot and must not avoid. It is not a matter of chasing after new supposed leaders, but of being a thoroughly new Parliament. This crisis is not a crisis of calculations and of egoisms, or of the computer against the country folk, but we cannot forget how ‘mad cow’ disease started. It is that too, but it is above all the unquestionable crisis of a liberalist idea: not to formulate an alternative idea of Europe would truly be unforgivable."@en1
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